Magnus Hundt

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Magnus Hundt (* 1449 in Magdeburg , † May 3, 1519 in Meißen , also Magnus Hund and Magnus Canis, Parthenopolitanus ) was a German philosopher, doctor (anatomist) and theologian.

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Magnus Hundt came from an influential Magdeburg family. He enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1482 . In 1483 he acquired the baccalaureate and in 1486 was master . In 1497 he became dean of the artist faculty and in 1499 rector of the alma mater . In 1499 he became a bachelor of medicine and soon thereafter a doctorate in medicine. After he was promoted to licentiate in theology on November 1, 1504, he received his doctorate in theology in 1510, became professor of theology in 1512 and was associated with canon and archdeacon of Lusatia in Meißen. Together with Otto Casmann, Magnus Hundt is considered to be the founder of modern anthropology .

In Hundt's main work “Antropologium de hominis dignitate, natura et proprietatibus” (Leipzig 1501), the term technicus “anthropology” appears for the first time . The work, which wants to offer an overall view of the human being, presents him in a very dualistic manner in his physical-material and in his mental-spiritual condition and constitution, according to his dual nature. “The mental component obviously has a preponderance; for man can only be regarded as an “image of God” in his mental constitution. (Homo est dei imago secundum animam.) “This key position of the human goes back with Hundt to the old idea, which sees the human being as a node between creator and creation. "Homo est dei et mundi nodus." This is where people draw their rank and dignity.

With Otto Casmann, the term technicus “anthropology” later appears much more decidedly and sharply defined than with Magnus Hundt. Hundt and Casmann are considered to be the founders of modern anthropology due to the history of terms described.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Available online at: urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00005108-8 Cf. also Paul Chummar Chittilappilly: Between Cosmos and Time - Medical Anthropology by Heinrich Schipperges, On the Conversation between Medicine and Ethics (Frankfurt contributions to the history and ethics of Medicine, Volume 14), p. 148, Hildesheim 2000 (Georg Olms Verlag), ISBN 3487112639
  2. ^ Section after: Heinrich Schipperges: Illness and being sick in the mirror of history . Heidelberg, 1999, p. 86f. ISBN 3540657851

literature

  • August Hirsch and Carl von Prantl :  Hundt, Magnus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 392.
  • Franz Joseph Worstbrock: Art. "Hundt, Magnus", in German Humanism 1480–1520: author's lexicon, ed. by FJ Worstbrock, Vol. 1, De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, Sp. 1176-1185.
  • Georg Buchwald: “Magnus Hundt d. Ä. from Magdeburg ”. In: Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde, NF 11 (1919/20), pp. 275-279.

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SURNAME Hundt, Magnus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dog, Magnus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1449
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1519
Place of death Meissen