Johannes Posthius

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Johannes Posthius

Johannes Posth , Latinized Johannes Posthius (born  October 15, 1537 in Germersheim , †  June 24, 1597 in Mosbach ), was a German neo-Latin poet as well as a doctor and prince-bishop's personal physician in Würzburg.

Life

Posthius' mother died the same day he was born, and three years later he also lost his father. On May 1, 1554, he began studying philosophy in Heidelberg ; among others he had his friend Petrus Lotichius Secundus and Georg Marius as teachers. In 1556 he became a baccalaureus and in 1558 he obtained a master's degree in philosophy. Then he switched to the medical faculty and studied medicine , among others with Thomas Erast . Two years later, Elector Friedrich III appointed him . from the Palatinate to the Heidelberg Pedagogy, where he worked as a teacher until 1562. Between 1563 and 1568 he undertook various scientific trips - especially to Italy until 1565 (where he stayed in Padua, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Siena and Rome, among others) - at the height of which he went to Montpellier in 1567 after studying medicine from 1565 to 1566 and a stay in Paris in Valence doctor of medicine doctorate was. For two years he then worked as a doctor in Bourges and Antwerp and served as a field doctor for the Duke of Alba . His next stop was Würzburg from 1568/1569 , where he worked as a city doctor (from 1582) and personal physician to the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and got married. He wrote numerous poems about his wife Rosina, with whom he had two children. In 1577 he was appointed poeta laureatus (he wrote a number of poems and fables). In 1585 he moved back to the Palatinate court to Elector Friedrich IV and moved again to Heidelberg. After the plague broke out in Heidelberg in 1596, he fled with the elector to Mosbach , where he finally died.

About his hometown Germersheim , where he also went to school, Posthius said: “Walls to which the happy Germania gave its name.” Posthiusstraße there was named after him.

literature

  • Franz Xaver von Wegele , Hugo Holstein :  Posthius, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 473-477.
  • Klaus Karrer:  Posthius, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 656-658 ( digitized version ).
  • Klaus Karrer: Johannes Posthius (1537–1597). List of letters and works with regesta and Posthius biography, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993 (Gratia, 23), acc .: phil. Diss. Univ. Erlangen, Nuremberg 1992, ISBN 3-447-03331-2 . Note: the indispensable standard work on Posthius!
  • Joseph Probst : History of the city and fortress Germersheim . 2nd Edition. Verlag der Buchhandlung Johann Richter, Pirmasens 1974, ISBN 3-920784-16-2 . Pp. 254-264. Note: There is also a newer edition of this book, but the page numbers may not match correctly.
  • Reinhold Klotz: Germersheim - my hometown . P. 278f.
  • Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements III (I – Z). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 269-305, here: p. 285.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Heyers: Dr. Georg Marius, called Mayer von Würzburg (1533-1606). (Dental) medical dissertation Würzburg 1957, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Klotz: Germersheim - my hometown . P. 278. Penultimate and last line.
personal data
SURNAME Posthius, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Post, Johannes; Posth, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1537
PLACE OF BIRTH Germersheim
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1597
Place of death Mosbach