Ernst Soner

Ernst Soner (born December 1572 in Nuremberg ; † September 28, 1612 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ) was a German physician , naturopath and Socinian . The Soner Catechism , a Unitarian confessional document, comes from Soner .

The Nuremberg merchant's son studied medicine at the later University of Altdorf from 1589 to 1592 with Nicolaus Taurellus and Philipp Scherbe .

After he had become a master's degree in 1595 , he went on a study trip to Leiden in the Netherlands in 1597/1598 , where he was supported by the two anti-Trinitarians Christoph Ostorodt (Krzysztof Ostorod, 1560-1611) and Andreas Wojdowski (Voivodius, 1565-1622) Unitarianism was won. He then went to England, France and Italy to study primarily in Padua , which at the time was part of Venice . It is believed that he was listening to the “ rationalist ” Aristotelian Cesare Cremonini (1550–1631) or his students.

In Basel he obtained a doctorate in medicine . In 1602 he settled in Nuremberg as a doctor. As a medical professor and professor of naturopathy , he succeeded Philipp Scherbe in 1605 and was rector of the Altdorf Academy in 1607/1608.

The attempt to cure his colleague Nicolaus Taurellus from the plague failed.

His students included u. a. Johann Crell (from 1620 rector of the Rakow Academy ), Michael Gittich (Venetianus, † 1654), Martin Ruarus and Jonas Schlichting (1592–1661), who are instrumental in the development of the Polish Unity and the early Enlightenment.

Fonts

• Theses de febribus. 1596.
• Theses de sanguinis missione in genere, per Galeno. 1597.
• Disputatio inauguralis de melancholia. 1601. Also in: Decas III disputationum medicarum selectarum. 1620.
• Theses medicae de sanguinis detractione per venas. 1606.
• De materia prima disputationes duae. 1607. Also in: JP Felwinger (Ed.): Philosophia Altdorphina. 1644, disp. IV and Disp. V.

literature

• Ralf Bröer: Antiparacelsism and Trinity. Medical antitrinitarianism from Thomas Erastus (1524–1583) to Ernst Soner (1572–1605) . In: Reports on the history of science . Vol. 29, No. 2, 2006, pp. 137-154, doi : 10.1002 / bewi.200601135 .
• Richard Falckenberg :  Soner, Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 622 f.
• Martin Schmeisser (ed.): Socinianic confessional documents. The Rakow Catechism of Valentin Schmalz (1608) and the so-called Soner Catechism. Academy, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-005200-7 .
• Günther Thomann:  Soner, Ernst. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 789-792.