Georg Forberger

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Georg Forberger (also Sader , Villanus or Acronius ; * around 1543 in Mittweida ; † after 1604 ) was a German editor and translator .

Life

Forberger, otherwise known as Sader, attended the Princely School in Grimma from 1556 to 1562 , and then matriculated in Erlangen before he obtained a master's degree from the University of Wittenberg . He then devoted himself to medical studies at the University of Basel and the University of Leipzig , but under the influence of the Basel publisher Peter Perna he took on translation work for the Elector August von Sachsen . He got in touch with Adam Bodenstein in Basel, Johannes Scultetus Montanus from Striegau and Johann Thölde . The last years of his life are in the dark.

As a journalist he worked on the translation of historical works, the writings of Paracelsus and other alchemical works into the German language. After he had pointed out how important the Latin language is as a basic tool of wisdom, he nevertheless advocated that the "common youth" should receive lessons in German. In doing so, he laid the foundations for an increasingly nationally oriented education in the German-speaking area.

Selection of works

  • Small wound medicine, Basel 1579
  • Denys Zachaire: From Natural Philosophia, Halle 1609
  • Bernhardus Trevisanus : Answer to the letter of Thomas von Bononia, Berlin 1733
  • From the Philosopher's Stone
  • Paracelsus: Opera Latine reddita, Basel, P.Perna 1575

literature

  • Joachim Telle in Walther Killys Literaturlexikon: Authors and works in the German language. (15 volumes) Gütersloh; Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl. 1988-1991 (CD-ROM Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ) Vol. 3 p. 452
  • Rudolph Zaunick: The Saxon Paracelsist Georg Forberger. With bibliographical contributions on Paracelsus, Alexander von Suchten, Denys Zacaire, Bernardus Trevirensis, Paolo Giovio, Francesco Guicciardini and Natale Conti , Kosmosophie, Volume 4 (Eds. Hans-Heinz Eulner and Kurt Goldammer ), F. Steiner 1977

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Zigan: The Mittweidaer Forberger family "otherwise called Sader" in the 16th century.
personal data
SURNAME Forberger, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sander; Villanus; Acronius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH around 1543
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittweida
DATE OF DEATH after 1604