Georg Noessler

Georg Nößler, from: Martin Friedrich Seidels picture collection of the Mark Brandenburg

Georg Nößler , also: Nössler (born May 10, 1591 in Neu-Cölln ; † July 9, 1650 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ) was a German professor of medicine and philosophy .

Georg Nößler was a son of the Berlin court preacher Martin Nößler . That is why the elector Johann Georg was his godfather. At the age of 14 he came to the Halle (Saale) grammar school , which he had to leave because of a plague epidemic. He then studied medicine and philosophy at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt and the University of Wittenberg .

After the death of his parents, he received his doctorate from the University of Helmstedt in 1614. He then went on a three-year educational trip to Italy. There he stayed at the University of Padua and in Venice , among others .

From 1618 Nößler was professor of medicine and philosophy at the University of Altdorf . There he married Ursula born in 1618. Shäbin, the widow of Eustachi Unterholzer, one of the Nuremberg Grand Councilors. After her death in 1633 he married Catharina Pfaud, with whom he had five sons. He also became a member of the Nuremberg Medical College and personal physician of Count Palatine Johann Friedrich von Hilpoltstein . At the university he held the office of dean of the philosophical faculty six times and that of the dean of medicine eight times. He was also rector of the university five times. He died in 1650 as an active professor in Altdorf.

literature

• GA Will: The Nuremberg University of Altdorf. In: Der Bote , April 4, 1998.
• Martin Friedrich Seidel : Collection of pictures in which a hundred, mostly bored in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, but all around the same well-deserved men are presented, with an attached explanation, in which the same most worthy life - circumstances and writings are told by George Gottfried Küster. Verlag des Buchladen bey der Real-Schule, Berlin 1751, pp. 178–181 ( online ).
• Nuremberg scholar lexicon; or, a description of all Nuremberg scholars of Beyderley ancestry after their life. Part NS. Lorenz Schüpfel, Nürnberg / Altdorf 1757, pp. 38-45 ( online ).