David Herlitz

David Herlitz (1613)

David Herlitz (also David Herlicius or David Herlitzius; * December 28, 1557 in Zeitz ; † August 15, 1636 in Stargard in Pomerania ) was a German physician, mathematician, astronomer, historian and Latin poet.

Life

Born as the son of councilor Andreas Herlitz, he grew up in Schlaitz , attended the University of Wittenberg , then moved to the University of Leipzig and moved to the University of Rostock , where he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree. He then became vice-principal at the school in Güstrow , specialized in medicine and worked in Prenzlau in 1582 and as a physician in Anklam in 1583 , where he set up a practice.

In 1585 he followed a call to the University of Greifswald as a professor of mathematics, where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1596 and was rector of the Greifswald University in 1597 . In 1598 he left Greifswald, first became physicist in Stargard and from 1606 was city ​​physician in Lübeck . In 1614 he returned to Stargard, set up his practice there and made a name for himself as a medical and mathematical writer.

Herlitz had been writing annual calendars since 1590, sometimes several editions per year with different content orientations, which were published in Stettin, Magdeburg, Wittenberg, Frankfurt ad Oder and Nuremberg until 1655, i.e. after his death. Several of his writings were devoted to astronomical subjects, including direct instructions on how to observe the sky and astronomical phenomena such as eclipses and comets.

In 1628 Wallenstein commissioned him to record the horoscope of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden . During the siege of Stargard on October 7, 1635, he lost his library with numerous manuscripts and died soon afterwards. His writings show him as a man with a wide range of interests, who was the only one who could not gain anything from legal science.

The organist and writer Elias Herlitz was his brother as was the Stralsund cantor Andreas Herlitz (1565–1623).

Works (selection)

• Menalcas. Greifswald 1594.
• Carmina. Szczecin 1606.
• Disputatio de epilepsia. 1596.
• Tractatus theologastro nomistoricus. From the fall of the Turkish Empire and the finite destruction of a number of conjectures and assumptions from the h. Scripture, star art and histories taken. Szczecin 1596.
• Kurtze… declaration / of the sworn new star or comet / so in September of this 1607th year has been seen. Lübeck 1607.
• with Georg Grawel, Joachim Wibbeking : De Variolis Vel Papulis = Necessary and Brief Reminder / of the now rampant buck or leaf , Amseder, Lübeck 1609
• Old and New Writing Calendar / Auffs year after the gracious and wholesome birth of our Lords… M. DC. X. Alten Stettin 1609, digital copy of the copy in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel
• Discursus historico-physicus of Parheliis or five suns, as seen on April 3rd 1610. Szczecin 1610
• Kurtzer Discurs Vom Cometen, and three suns, which appeared at the end of the 1618th year, as well as of the future Coniunction or gathering of all planets in Cancer, Anno 1622. And especially afterwards in Lewen, Anno 1623 . Old Stettin 1619, online edition of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Theodor Pyl :  Herlitz, David . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 118.
• Herlicius, David. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 1700 f.
• Ersch , Gruber : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste Sect 2 T. 6 S. 216

Web links

• Works by and about David Herlitz  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about David Herlitz in VD 17 .

• Literature about David Herlitz in the state bibliography MV
• Bibliography of his writings in Bibliography of Astronomical Literature up to 1700 . by Jürgen Hamel

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Calenus	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1597	Christian Calenus