Johann Pontanus
Johann Pontanus (also: Brückner ; * around 1515 in Eisleben ; † July 9, 1572 in Vienna ) was a German medic and alchemist .
Life
Johann was probably a son of the Eisleben smelter and councilor Hans Brückner and Hedwig Heidelberg. What is certain is that he had a sister, Klara, who was married to Matthäus Ratzenberger . He enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in the winter semester of 1534/35, and on September 15, 1541 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. In 1544 he went to the newly founded University of Königsberg , where he took over a professorship at the philosophical faculty. In the following year he went on an educational trip that took him to Italy , among other places , where he received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Padua .
He returned to Königsberg and received there in October 1552 the second medical professorship as well as the professorship for physics. Albrechts of Prussia also hired him as a personal physician. In this function he also took over the rectorate of the university in the winter semester 1552/53 . At that time, Georg Sabinus had chosen him to be the godfather of one of his children. The Osiandrian dispute , which shook the Königsberg University at that time, did not pass him by either. After speaking out against Andreas Osiander , he was dismissed from service in August 1553 after his time as rector.
He then went to the medical faculty of the University of Jena as assessor and professor and served Johann Friedrich the Middle of Saxony in Gotha and later Johann Wilhelm of Saxony in Weimar as personal physician. He accompanied the latter to Vienna, where he died without the cause of death being clarified.
His widow Regina, a daughter of the Altenburg regional judge Christoph Baumgartner, whom he married on July 19, 1568, married the Weimar lawyer Günther Schneidewein, a son of Luther's pupil Johann Schneidewein , after Pontanus' death .
Pontanus left the pharmaceutical writings methodus componendi Theriacam (for the preparation of Theriak ) and methodus praeparandi Ambram factitiam (for the preparation of artificial Ambras ).
literature
- Johannes Günther: Life sketches of the professors of the University of Jena from 1558 to 1858. Verlag Friedrich Mauke, Jena, 1858, ( online )
- Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Scholar Lexicon. 3. Vol. 1688 ( online )
- Pontanus, Johann a famous medicus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 28, Leipzig 1741, column 1459-1456.
- Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt: Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 307
- Heinz Scheible, Corinna Schneider: Melanchthon's correspondence (MBW) Volume 11: People A – E. Frommann-Holzboog, 2004, ISBN 3-7728-2257-6 , p. 224
Individual evidence
- ^ Luther yearbook. 1991, vol. 58, p. 11; and Thomas Anselmino: Medicine and pharmacy at the court of Duke Albrechts of Prussia: (1490–1568). Verlag Palatina, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-932608-32-2 , p. 157.
- ↑ August Beck: Johann Friedrich the Middle, Duke of Saxony. Verlag Hermann Böhlau, Weimar, 1858, Part 2, p. 149, ( online )
- ↑ Christoph Irenäus, Rebecca [wedding script], s. l. 1568
- ^ Paul Freher , Theatrum virorum eruditione singulari clarorum, II, Nuremberg 1688, 1265-1266.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pontanus, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brueckner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1515 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1572 |
| Place of death | Vienna |