Erhard Cellius

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Erhard Cellius - Oil portrait by Hans Ulrich Alt in the Tübingen Professorengalerie , 1590
Erhard Cellius on a woodcut in the book Imagines professorum Tubingensium which he edited

Erhard Cellius , originally Ehrhard Horn (born January 10, 1546 in Zell in the Palatinate ; † June 9, 1606 in Tübingen ), was a German philologist (professor of Latin language and poetry), printer, publisher and historian .

Life

Erhard Cellius received his high school education in Mainz and Düsseldorf . He studied at the University of Tübingen from 1564 to 1567 , where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1565 and his master's degree in 1567, and from 1568 to 1588 he was rector of the local contubernium ( Burse ). In 1569 he became professor for Latin language at the pedagogy. 1582 he entered the place of the by Laibach dialed Nicodemus Frischlin as an associate professor of poetics and history at the Faculty of Arts in 1587 he became a full professor of eloquence .

From 1596 he was the owner of a printing house in Tübingen, which later became the Osiander bookstore . He is the author of many academic occasional publications and published a collection of short descriptions of the lives of the Tübingen professors from 1577 to 1595 with self-made woodcuts, which were published by his publishing house under the title Imagines professorum Tubingensium . His lectures dealt with Greek and Roman classics, rhetoric and history and were considered boring.

Individual evidence

  1. Reinhold Scholl: The portrait collection of the University of Tübingen, 1477 to 1927 , K. Ad. Emil Müller, Stuttgart 1927.
  2. ^ A b Karl August Klüpfel:  Cellius, Erhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 82.
  3. Entry Erhard Cellius on Tobias picture.