Heinrich Stackmann

Heinrich Stackmann (* around 1485 in Fallersleben (now Wolfsburg ); † September 20, 1532 in Wittenberg ) was a German physician, philologist, physicist, poet and humanist.

Life

Stackmann enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1504 , where he became a Baccalaureus on August 6, 1506 and a master's degree in the seven liberal arts at the philosophical faculty on December 28, 1512 . On October 12, 1511, he appeared in Leipzig with a disputation, moved to the University of Wittenberg on April 26, 1512 and was accepted into the Senate of the Faculty of Philosophy on April 28, 1513. After being a member of the new college in the winter semester , he became an associate professor in 1517 and a full professor of Latin grammar in the winter semester of 1517.

For teaching purposes he had 10 letters from Jerome printed, which appeared under the title Decem Divi Hieronymi epistolae ad vitam mortalium instituendam accomodatissimae . From 1518 onwards, he studied medicine under Peter Burckhard . After a university reform was carried out in Wittenberg in 1521, Stackmann gave up his professorship for Latin grammar to Janus Cornarius and took over the professorship of physics from Jodokus Mörlin . In the same year, under Burckhard, Stackmann and Augustin Schurff obtained the licentiate in medicine on June 3, 1521 and was admitted to the medical faculty on June 12, 1521.

When Stephan Wild gave up his professorship in practical medicine in 1522, professors such as Martin Luther , Philipp Melanchthon , Johannes Schwertfeger , Andreas Bodenstein , Johannes Bernhardi and others petitioned the Saxon Elector Friedrich the Wise for Stackmann as his successor. With the support of Georg Spalatin , he was appointed to the medical professorship of practical medicine on November 5, 1522, for which he received an annual salary of 50 gulden. He then gave up his professorship in physics and received his doctorate in medicine on December 9, 1523 , for which his professor's salary was increased to 70 guilders in 1525.

Stackmann, who was also active as a Latin poet, also dealt with philosophical, theological and legal issues. In 1515 he was a candidate for the theological faculty. He wrote epigrams and became known as a humanist. He was also committed to organizational tasks in university operations. He was dean of the faculty of philosophy in the summer semester of 1515 and in the winter semester of 1521 , and dean of the medical faculty in the summer semester of 1527 and in the winter semester of 1529. In the summer semester of 1527 he was also the rector's office of the university .

literature

• Otto Clemen: Heinrich Stackmann von Fallersleben. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony (ZHVNS), 1904
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502–1652) - A biobibliographical overview. in Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and Social Work in Central Germany during the Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2007, ISBN 9783374024377