Heinrich Fabricius (medic)

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Heinrich Fabricius (* around 1547 in Bergzabern ; † March 28, 1612 in Hornbach ) was a German medic, poet and philosopher. His real name was Heinrich Faber , after his appointment as Poeta laureatus he latinized the name to Fabricius.

Life

Fabricius received lessons from Immanuel Tremellius at the newly founded Hornbacher Gymnasium from 1559 and went to Wittenberg on April 1, 1565. On May 2, 1565 he enrolled in Wittenberg , in 1566 he began studying at the academy of Johannes Sturm in Strasbourg .

On November 6, 1567 he became a teacher in Zweibrücken . As an educator for the Friedrich von Scharffenstein family, he went to Heidelberg with the children at Easter 1568 , where he began studying medicine. In 1570 he was as a speaker or translators for an embassy to the Diet of Speyer sent where he struck and 1572 by Emperor . Maximilian II to the poet laureate was crowned.

In 1573 Fabricius continued his medical studies in Padua , where he matriculated on January 8th. On March 30 of the same year he received his doctorate in medicine in Basel , returned to Hornbach and taught philosophy at the grammar school there. In 1577 he was appointed rector of the high school in Hornbach by Duke Johann I von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , which he was forced to resign from in 1600 and worked as a doctor.

On October 21, 1583 he wrote a letter to Duke Johann I about the effects of the plague on the Hornbacher Gymnasium.

His son Heinrich Rupert Fabricius was born on October 28, 1597.

In 1601 Fabricius became a personal physician in Nuremberg .

He died in 1612 at the age of 65. A tomb was erected for him in Hornbach with the inscription: Montanæ Henricum civem genuere Tabernæ / Fabricium, Hornbacum fovit & Italia / Inde redit duplices edoctus Apollinis artes: / Hic Rector lustrus quinque obit emeritus. / Corpus habet fanum Ioannis, ut ipse volebat: / Hæc tabula hæredum testis amoris adest.

His funerary inscription read: Qui Christum coluit coletque in ævum / Ista Fabricius recumbit urna / Summus philosophus, poëta summus / Et summus medicus: dolete amici. (Fabricius is buried here / A man with a pious Christian spirit / A philosopher adorned with poetic gifts / A good doctor, O friends, weeps for him.)

Works

  • Proempticon. In gratiam honesti et doctissimi iuvenis D. Iodoci Miodalchae Meisenheimensis in patriam Vuiteberga discedentis , Wittenberg: Petrus Seitz 1566 (VD16)
  • Carmen funebre. s. l .: Neuberus, 1570
  • Congratulations Germaniae ad Galliam: De Nvptiis Christianissimi Ac Potentissimi Regis Galliae, Caroli, eius nominis IX. & Serenissimae Heroinae Isabellae, natae Reginae Hungariae & Bohemiae, Archiducissae Austriae ... Diui Maximiliani II. Imperatoris ... Filiae . Heidelberg 1570
  • Congratulations to Joannem Casimirum, Comitem Palatinum Rheni & Elisabetham, Augusti Saxoniae Principis filiam. Heidelberg 1570
  • Epithalamium Illvstrissimo Principi ac Domino D. Ioanni Palatino Rheni, Duci Bauariae, Comiti Veldentij ac Sponheimiae: Sponso: ac inclitae Magdalenae, Illustrißimi Principis Guillelmi, Ducis Iuliacensis, Cliuensis ac Montẽsis: ... filiae sponsae. Strasbourg: Wyriot 1579 (VD16)
  • Carmen In Nvptias Clarissimi & Doctissimi Viri, D. Ioannis Stvrzii, Iuris vtriusque Doctoris, ac Illustrissimi Principis Bipo [n] tini Consiliarij, Sponsi: ac Margarethae, D. Ruperti Suebelij, eiusdem Principis Consiliarij, & Prouincialis Scribae Neocastelli, & c. Filiae, Sponsae. Strasbourg: Wyriot, 1580 (VD16)
  • Several poems in: Pantaleon Candidus : Epigrammatum sacrorum libri duodecim ex prioribus libris Bibliorum . Geneva: Jacob Stoer, 1589. p. 15 , p. 19
  • Encomium poeticum Academiae Marpurgensis artium liberalium earundemque professorum . Marburg: Egenolph (ca.1590)
  • Several poems in: Pantaleon Candidus : Epitaphia antiqua et recentia , Strasbourg: Josias Rihel by Andreas Rietsch, 1600; including:
  • 100 poems in: John Owen : Epigrammatum libri tres , editio nova, Frankfurt 1614, pp. 100–127
  • Oratio de vita, obituque Hieronymi Tragi medici & canonici Hornbacensis , quoted in Adam 1620, not preserved
  • Ad Petrum Agricolam epigramma (autograph in the University Library of Freiburg im Breisgau)
  • In principis Johannis Palatini Rheni e Bavaria reditum gratulatio (Autograph University Library Freiburg im Breisgau)
  • Letter to Georg Coelestin Reverendissimo ac clarissimo viro D. Georgio Coelestino, Bipontum adventanti S. Autograph in the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iselin et al. 1742, p. 407.
  2. ↑ Matricula Nationis Germanicae Artistarum in Gymnasio Patavino (1553-1721), ed. by Lucia Rossetti, Padova 1986, p. 34, no. 283.
  3. ^ Matriculation of the University of Basel II, Basel 1956, ed. by Hans Georg Wackernagel, p. 220, no. 13.
  4. ↑ a b Adam 1620, p. 418.
  5. ↑ Finckenstein 1864, p. 164.
  6. ↑ LBZ catalog. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Fabricius 1709, p. 37.
  8. ↑ http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/2646/pdf/Boll_Gesamt1.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/2646/pdf/Boll_Gesamt1.pdf
  10. ↑ http://hansopac.slub-dresden.de/cgi-bin/slub.pl?t_tunnel=idn&idn=b12871
personal data
SURNAME Fabricius, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faber, Heinrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic, poet and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH around 1547
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1612
Place of death Hornbach , Palatinate