Johannes Mathesius the Younger

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Johannes Mathesius the Younger (born August 25, 1544 in Sankt Joachimsthal , † January 1607 in Danzig ) was a German medic.

Life

Born as the son of Johannes Mathesius and his wife Sybille geb. Richter, he received a solid education at the local school in his hometown. His father advised him to aim for a school office, so that on March 26, 1551 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg . After a fever attack, he visited his uncle Johannes Praetorius in Nuremberg , where, at the request of his father, he was to spend some time to get to know the customs of the people in the famous city.

Via Torgau he returned to Wittenberg, where he acquired the degree of master's degree on February 24, 1564 . After the death of his father, he went to the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1567, published his father's “The Magnificent Life of Jesus” and went on a trip to Italy to study medicine. In Italy he received his doctorate in medicine at the University of Bologna , traveled to France in 1574 and was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg on August 3, 1575 by the Saxon Elector August von Sachsen .

After arriving in Wittenberg from Bologna , on April 2, 1576, he was admitted to the medical faculty as the third professor. The young professor was considered learned and was considered a good anatomist. Thereupon, in the winter semester of 1578, he was given the rectorate of the university. After he married Barbara, the daughter of the late medical professor Caspar Naeve (Nefe, Naevius) (1514–1579) from Leipzig on February 16, 1580 , the theological debates of the time affected his teaching post. Since he refused to sign the formula of the Agreement , he was dismissed and had to leave Electoral Saxony . He went to Rügenwalde as the personal physician of Duke Barnim X. von Pomerania , became a city ​​physicist and professor of medicine in Danzig in 1584 at the grammar school there , which position he held until the end of his life and where he was buried on January 14, 1607.

Works

  • Oratio De admirabili auditus instrumenti fabrica & structura. Wittenberg 1577 ( VD 16 No.M 1529)
  • Kurtz and simple-minded regiment and ordinance, which everyone must use in the above danger of dying, Danzig 1588
  • Historia of our dear Hernn and Heyland Jesu Christi, Nuremberg 1568
  • From the Pestilence, Hamburg 1597

literature

personal data
SURNAME Mathesius, Johannes the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Joachimsthal
DATE OF DEATH January 1607
Place of death Danzig