Lorenz Scholz from Rosenau

Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau , also Laurentius Scholtz (born September 20, 1552 in Breslau ; † April 22, 1599 ibid) was a German botanist and doctor .

Life

Son of a pharmacist of the same name from Breslau, Scholz attended the university in Wittenberg from 1572 to 1576 after completing his classical training at the Elisabeth School in Breslau . There as well as in Padua , where he enrolled on June 18, 1576, and Bologna , where botanical gardens already existed, he studied medicine and other natural sciences from 1572–78 .

In 1579 he undertook an educational journey ( cavalier journey ) through Italy with several compatriots, Niklas von Rhediger from Breslau , Johann Matthäus Wacker von Wackenfels and Martin Schilling . In Milan he and Schilling separated from the group and traveled to the south of France, where Scholz received his doctorate in medicine and philosophy from the University of Valence .

After returning to Silesia , Scholz married the Wroclaw pastor's daughter Sara Aurifaber. From 1580 he practiced as a doctor in Schwiebus and Freystadt in Silesia . He was particularly concerned with researching the plague and wrote a plague ordinance, which was printed in Wroclaw in 1581. From 1585 he practiced permanently in Breslau. In the same year the imperial Count Palatine Crato awarded him a coat of arms. In recognition of his successful measures against the plague, he was raised to the Bohemian nobility in 1596 as "Scholz von Rosenau" . In 1599 Scholz von Rosenau died of tuberculosis .

He became famous for translating and editing the writings of famous Greek , Arabic and contemporary doctors. For example, his work Aphorismorum medicinalium cum theoreticorum tum practicorum sectiones VIII (medical aphorisms) from 1589 represents a compendium of all medicine of his time.

As a botanist, he was particularly interested in exotic plants newly introduced from America and Asia , which he cultivated in large numbers in his Wroclaw garden from 1587 and had them compiled in a catalog illustrated by the Wroclaw painter Georg Freyberger . He put up two plant inventories, which were printed in Breslau in 1587 and 1594. Scholz's garden covered an area of ​​about three hectares and was divided into four squares by main paths; in the middle was a building that served as an art chamber and dining room. Here he organized cheerful flower festivals, to which he invited selected personalities. The potato was also grown in his garden.

Works

• Aphorismorum medicinalium. Scharffenberg, Breslau 1589.
• Catalogus arborum, fruticum et plantarum. Wroclaw 1594.
• In Laurentii Scholzii Medici Wratisl. Hortum Epigrammata Amicorum. Baumann, Breslau 1594–98.
• Consiliorum medicinalium, conscriptorum à praestantiss. atque exercitatiss. nostrorum temporum medicis. Wechelus, Marnius & Aubrius, Frankfurt, Hanover 1598-1626 pm
• Epistolarum Philosophicarum Medicinalium, Ac Chymicarum à Summis nostrae Aetatis Philosophis ac Medicis Exaratarum, volume. Wechelus, Marnius & Aubrius, Frankfurt 1598-1610 pm

literature

• Ferdinand Cohn :  Scholz von Rosenau, Laurentius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 229 f.
• Manfred P. Fleischer : The garden of Laurentius Scholz. A cultural landmark of late-sixteenth-century Lutheranism. - In: The journal of medieval and renaissance studies, Vol. 9, 1979, pp. 29-48; German also in: Manfred P. Fleischer: Späthumanismus in Schlesien. Selected essays. Munich 1984, pp. 136–163 ( The garden of Laurentius Scholz ).
• Dieter Hennebo and Alfred Hoffmann: History of German garden art, Volume 2, Hamburg 1956, pp. 32–35.
• Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon, Volume 2. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1 , pp. 1528-1530.

Web links

• Scholz von Rosenau, Laurentius . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matricula Nationis Germanicae Artistarum in Gymnasio Patavino (1553-1721), ed. by Lucia Rossetti, Padova 1986, p. 39, no.335.