Christoph Schilling

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Christoph Schilling (* in Frankenstein in Silesia ; † October 16, 1583 in Linz ) was a Silesian humanist , reformed pedagogue and physician .

education

His year of birth - around 1535 to 1540 - is not known. Up to the age of 13 he attended the school in Frankenstein, then received his further training at the municipal school of scholars in Vienna and undertook theological and humanistic studies at the Evangelical Lutheran University of Wittenberg near Melanchthon .

Employment

In 1563 he was appointed rector of the Hirschberg city ​​school in Silesia. He had already earned a reputation for proficiency in Latin and Greek . Schilling, who leaned towards the evangelical-reformed direction, gave religious instruction according to the reformed Heidelberg catechism . A dispute broke out with the Lutheran pastor of Hirschberg, Balthasar Tilesius. This succeeded in having Schilling removed from his office in 1566 after having held it for only about three years. His best-known student during this time was his fellow Frankensteiner, who later became famous Reformed theologian David Pareus .

On Zacharias Ursinus ' recommendation he became the founding rector of the school in Amberg in the Upper Palatinate in 1566 , but with his Reformed teaching he encountered resistance from the elector's Lutheran-minded eldest son , Ludwig . Soon called in Elector Friedrich III. as rector of the pedagogy in Heidelberg . After the elector's death (1576) and the change of the Palatinate from the Reformed to the Lutheran denomination, he also had to resign from this office. He was friends with Andreas Dudithius , Johann Crato von Krafftheim , Thomas Erastus and Theodor Zwinger .

He now embarked on a new path in life. Probably tired of denominational quarrels, he went to study medicine with Peter Monau in Padua , where he matriculated on June 14, 1578, and then to Valence , where he received his doctorate in medicine from Laurent Joubert on December 2, 1579 . He was appointed to Linz as a physicus by the Upper Austrian provinces.

Works

Schilling's Greek and Latin poems were highly regarded by his contemporaries because of their perfect form. From 1561 to 1570 he published several Epithalamia (wedding poems), between 1561 and 1578 he was a contributor several times. In 1580 he published the Oratio de praesidiis futuri excellentis medici Laurentio Jouberto in Geneva .

In 1633 , the scholar Johann Philipp Pareus , who was highly regarded as a Latinist , stated in the vita of his father David Pareus that his teacher Christoph Schilling had determined the height of the Schneekoppe in the Giant Mountains to be more than 30 stages , say about 5330 meters. The statement has been rewritten many times by other authors and founded the widespread opinion in the 17th century that the Schneekoppe is the highest mountain in Europe .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matricula Nationis Germanicae Artistarum in Gymnasio Patavino (1553-1721), ed. by Lucia Rossetti, Padova 1986, p. 43, no.364.
  2. ^ Johann Philipp Pareus: Narratio Historica de curriculo vitae, & obitu reverendissimi patris D. Davidis Parei , Frankfurt am Main 1633, p. 16 ( online )
  3. ↑ Frank Schüttig: Discover the Giant Mountains . Trescher, 2005, ISBN 3-89794-073-6 , p. 38 ( GoogleBooks )
  4. ↑ czechtourism.com ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.czechtourism.com
personal data
SURNAME Schilling, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian humanist, reformed pedagogue and physician
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenstein
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1583
Place of death Linz