Konrad Tockler

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Konrad Tockler , also Conrad Tockler or Conrad Töckler , lat. Conradus Noricus (* approx. 1470 in Nuremberg , † June 10, 1530 in Leipzig ), was a doctor, mathematician, astronomer and writer.

After studying and doing his doctorate at the University of Leipzig , he was professor of medicine there from 1512 , after which he was also rector of the academy that same year. In addition to medicine, he dealt intensively with mathematics and astrology . In 1503 a treatise on arithmetic appeared in Leipzig , and his iatromathematical publications - bloodletting tables and calendars with medical-astrological content - were printed in Leipzig as well as in his native Nuremberg . He also gave the spheres of John de Sacroboscoas well as the new book on the sun by Marsilio Ficino .

Works

  • Preclari oratoris et philosophi Marsilii Ficini Libellus de Sole . Leipzig 1502.
  • Textus Arithmetice communis . Leipzig ( Martin Landsberg ) 1503.
  • Commentatio Arithmetice communis . Leipzig (Martin Landsberg) 1503.
  • Textus Spere materialis Joa [n] nis de Sacrobusto cum lectura Magistri Conradi Norici in florentissimo Lipsensi gymnasio nuper exarata . Leipzig (Martin Landsberg) 1503.
  • Practica deutzsch Conradi Norici after the birth of christ on the one thousand five hundred and five jars . Leipzig (Martin Landsberg) 1504.
  • Canones ad inveniendum ciclum solarem lunarem, indictionalem, intervallum, concurrentes, festa mobilia, et ea quae ab ecclesia Rhomana, appropriato instrumento expressa, magis sunt observata . Leipzig (Martinus Herbipolensis) 1511.

Web links

literature

  • Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century , Munich 2007, Sp. 1534.
  • Barbara Schmidt-Thieme: Konrad Tockler, called Noricus . In: Rainer Gebhardt : Author and editor of mathematical texts of the early modern period. Writings of the Adam-Ries-Bund Annaberg-Buchholz Vol. 14 (2002), pp. 95-102.
  • Georg Andreas Will: Nuremberg scholars lexicon. Vol. 4. Nuremberg: Lorenz Schüpfel 1758, p. 37f.
personal data
SURNAME Tockler, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tockler, Conrad; Toeckler, Conrad; Noricus, Conradus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor, mathematician, astronomer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1470
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1530
Place of death Leipzig