Johannes Mellinger
Johannes Mellinger (* around 1538 in Halle ; † beginning of May 1603 in Celle ) was a German cartographer and doctor .
Life
Mellinger was born around 1538 as the son of Elisabeth († after 1572) and Hans Mellinger († before 1557). Mellinger is first mentioned in the documents in 1555 as a student at the University of Wittenberg . There he did his master's degree in 1562 and then went back to Halle.
1567 gained Mellinger in Weimar , the civil rights and was hired at the local municipal school as a cantor and from 1568 was also vice-principal. He stayed in Weimar until the beginning of 1569, where he published his first major cartographic work in 1568, a map of Thuringia .
In 1569 he took over the post of rector at the city school in Jena . There he enrolled at the University of Jena and began studying medicine in 1572. He gave up the office of rector in 1573.
In 1577 he worked in Hildesheim and in 1578 he became the personal physician of Duke Wilhelm the Younger of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in Celle . He took over the office after the death of Gervasius Marstaller, who was previously professor of medicine at the University of Jena. In 1579 Mellinger made his doctorate in medicine at the University of Rostock. After Duke Wilhelm's death in 1592, he became Duke Ernst II's personal physician .
In Celle he again worked as a cartographer, where he made an atlas of the offices and bailiffs in the Principality of Lüneburg in 1590 and a map of the Principality in 1592/1593 .
Mellinger married Catharina Schneller (1545–1604) in 1564. Their children were Nicolaus (around 1566–1629), pastor in Beedenbostel , Johannes (1569–1633), doctor in Hildesheim and Friedrich (1580–1626), pastor in Didderse , Wittingen and Sülfeld .
literature
- Peter Aufgebauer (Ed.): Johannes Mellinger, Atlas of the Principality of Lüneburg: [Ernst Schubert for his 60th birthday] . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-89534-391-9 .
- Annette von Stieglitz: Johannes Mellinger: Atlas des Fürstentums Lüneburg around 1600. [Eds.]: Peter Aufgebauer , Kirstin Casemir, Ursula Geller, Dieter Neitzert , Uwe Ohainski, Gerhard Streich In: Sehepunkte. July 28, 2002, ISSN 1618-6168 (review, sehepunkte.de ).
Web links
- Works by and about Johannes Mellinger in the German Digital Library (copper engravings)
- Map of Jena on museum-digital.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Mellinger. In: German biography.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mellinger, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cartographer and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1538 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hall |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1603 |
| Place of death | Celle |