Erasmus Flock

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Erasmus Flock also: Floccus (born January 1, 1514 in Nuremberg ; † July 21, 1568 ibid) was a German mathematician, astronomer, poet and physician.

Life

Flock attended the Egidiengymnasium in Nuremberg, where he was introduced to the seven liberal arts by Johannes Schöner . On May 14, 1533, he moved to the University of Wittenberg ( Leucorea ) as a Nuremberg council student , where he studied under Georg Joachim Rheticus , among others , and in 1538 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree . Flock was accepted as an adjunct at the philosophical faculty in 1540 , and after Georg Joachim Rheticus moved to the University of Leipzig in 1543 , Flock took over his professorship in lower mathematics at the Leucorea, with Hieronymus Schreiber , another Nuremberg resident, losing out. Flock became dean of the philosophical faculty in 1543/44.

After receiving his doctorate in medicine on September 10, 1545, he went back to Nuremberg, where he first set up a practice, worked as a city doctor from 1545 to 1568, and in 1546 the new hospital (later renamed Heilig-Geist-Spital ) took over. However, his work there did not go very well, so he pursued his mathematical studies and in 1550 published a new edition of Georg von Peuerbach and Regiomontanus Epitome Almagesti Ptolemaici . According to the council leaving on September 23, 1552, Flock was released from hospital service. From 1572 to 1576, his son of the same name worked there as a city doctor. In 1559 he published poems that were edited at the expense of the Paris University . Astronomical writings are also known from him.

Genealogically it should be mentioned that Flock had married Magarethe Körbitz (also Kerwitz, † 1573) from Wittenberg. This made him related to Melchior Fend . We know of the children that their son Erasmus (1575–1596) became a city doctor in Frankfurt am Main, while their daughter Rosina married the pharmacist Basilius Besler (1561–1629).

Fonts

  • From which runs, some places and meanings of the Comet , Nuremberg 1557
  • From the youngest and eighth comet , Nuremberg 1558
  • Vaticinium De ultimis temporibus , Nuremberg 1559
  • Prognostica de imperiis Christiano et Turcico from Joanne Viterbiensi (new edition from 1471), Nuremberg 1560

literature

  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg , Max Niemeyer Verlag , Halle (Saale) 1917
  • Otto Clemen: Erasmus Flock, a Nuremberg doctor and mathematician , in: Journal for Bavarian Church History (ZBayerKG) 14, 1939, pp. 195–202
  • Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon's Correspondence People Volume 12
  • Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502-1652) - A biobibliographical overview , in Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and social affairs in Central Germany during the Reformation, 2007 Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7
  • Karl Christian Bruhns :  Erasmus Flock . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 280.
  • Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel, Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502-1574) - A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2005, ISBN 3374023320

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doris Wolfangel: Dr. Melchior Ayrer (1520-1579). Medical dissertation Würzburg 1957, pp. 15-18, 23 f. and 30.
personal data
SURNAME Flock, Erasmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, astronomer, poet and physician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1514
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1568
Place of death Nuremberg