Johannes Marcellus

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Johannes Marcellus, called Regiomontanus (* 1510 in Königsberg , Lower Franconia ; † December 25, 1551 / (52) in Wittenberg ) was a German philologist and poet . He should not be confused with the mathematician Johannes Regiomontanus (1436–1476).

Life

After Marcellus started studying at the University of Erfurt , where he heard from Helius Eobanus Hessus , among others , he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on November 16, 1528 . Here he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree on August 28, 1534 and was accepted into the philosophical faculty as an adjunct of the university on January 1, 1537 . He then took over the pedagogical professorship of Latin grammar in 1537 and was appointed professor of poetics at the academy in 1541.

He read with preference about Ovid and presented his metamorphoses , fasting and tristia in distiches. He described the usefulness of poetry, which is of practical and ethical importance to him. After he had been dean in the summer semester of 1541 and in the winter semester of 1549, he managed the office of rector of the alma mater in the difficult time of the university in 1546 . He also participated in city affairs and sat on the city council from 1545 to 1551 before he died of "a raging fever".

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SURNAME Marcellus, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johannes Regimontanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg in Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1551 or December 25, 1552
Place of death Wittenberg