Heinrich Paxmann

Heinrich Paxmann

Heinrich Paxmann (also: Baxmann; * 1531 in Großburgwedel ; † July 11, 1580 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German rector and physician .

Life

The son of the pastor Hinricus Paxmann, had his school education in Braunschweig and moved to the University of Wittenberg in 1548 with a scholarship from the Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg . In the environment of Philipp Melanchthon , he completed his studies of the Artes Liberales and crowned them on February 11, 1550 with the acquisition of the philosophical master's degree . On October 18, 1551 he was accepted into the philosophy faculty. Here he gave lectures on physics and dialectics as well as on Demesthenes and Homer. In the winter semester of 1556 he was dean of the philosophical faculty.

Paxmann, who married the relative of Melanchthon's wife, Magaretha Krapp († September 17, 1556) on November 5, 1555, devoted himself to medical studies. In addition, he was promoted to Licentiate in Medicine on June 11, 1557 with the Disputation Themata medica under Johann Hermann and received his doctorate under the same on June 17, 1557 with the Oratio de medicinae usu as a Doctor of Medicine. In 1558, on Melanchthon's recommendation, he accepted an appointment as principal of the school in Goldberg . He was not up to the double demands of doctor and principal. Therefore, he was in 1562 by Heinrich XI. von Liegnitz dismissed from office as rector.

After working as a doctor in Bunzlau , he became professor of morals at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in 1564 . Here he was able to re-establish himself in the academic reading business. In 1576 this earned him a call as professor of medicine at the newly founded University of Helmstedt , where he attended the opening ceremony on October 15. However, he only stayed in this position until 1578 and returned to Frankfurt (Oder), where he lectured on moral philosophy, dialectics and Aristotle until the end of his life . At the Frankfurt University he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and administered the deanery of the philosophical faculty in 1566, 1572 and 1580 and was rector of the academy in 1564/65 and 1576/77.

Selection of works

1. De partibus humani corporis et de methodo , Wittenberg 1556
2. De philosophia subiecto et fine , Wittenberg 1556
3. De febri non intermittente , Wittenberg 1557
4. Oratio de Ernesto Duce Brunsuicensi . Wittenberg 1557

literature

• Society for German Educational and School History: Communications from the Society for German Educational and School History . 1908, p. 120
• Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502–1652) - A biobibliographical overview . In: Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and Social Affairs in Central Germany at the Time of the Reformation Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7 , p. 320
• Helmar Junghans: Directory of the Rectors, Vice Rectors, Deans, Professors and Castle Church Preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel , Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502–1574) - A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0
• Paxmann, Heinrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 26, Leipzig 1740, column 1658.