Matthias Stoius

Matthias Stoius (also: Stojus, Stoy ; born April 26, 1526 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † January 15, 1583 ibid) was a German mathematician and physician.

Life

The son of Matthias Stoius († 1529) had attended the schools in his hometown. As a scholarship holder of Duke Albrecht of Prussia, he moved to the University of Wittenberg in November 1543 . Here he initially devoted himself to studying the philosophical sciences. He had the opportunity to sit at Martin Luther 's table. Above all, however, Philipp Melanchthon should have been his formative teacher in those years. But Erasmus Reinhold and Erasmus Flock in mathematics as well as Paul Eber in physics are likely to have had a lasting influence on the young student. After he was under the deanery of Johannes Stigel on August 3, 1546Having acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences, he traveled via Frankfurt (Oder) back to Königsberg in 1547.

In Königsberg he became inspector of the alumni. Two years later he went to Wittenberg again to study medical science. At that time Jakob Milich and Melchior Fendt were professors at the Wittenberg University of Applied Sciences, but he also made contact with Caspar Peucer, at whose wedding he prepared a flattering horoscope for the bride. Among other things, he had completed an educational trip for his studies. This took him to the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1550 and to Nuremberg in 1551 . Returned to Wittenberg, he was admitted to the Senate Faculty of Philosophy on June 15, 1552. In 1553 he returned to Königsberg and took on an extraordinary professorship at the medical faculty. In the same year he completed an educational trip to Italy and received his doctorate, probably in Padua in 1555 , as a doctor of medical sciences.

After the death of Andreas Aurifaber , he was promoted to the second full medical professorship in Königsberg in 1560 and became the first full professor at the Königsberg University after the death of Simon Titius . At the same time he took over the full professorship, he became the personal physician of Albrecht (Prussia) and, after his death, of Albrecht Friedrich von Prussia . He had shown his interest in the mathematical sciences in 1578 in lectures on geometry, which he completed as an associate professor until 1579. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters 1562/63, 1566/67, 1570/71, 1574/75 and 1578/79 . Stoius, who was arrested in the confessional conflicts of his time, is to be counted among the Philippists . He has also appeared as a poet.

Stojus was married to Agnes, the daughter of Basilius Axt .

literature

• Jöcher : lexicon of scholars. Vol. 4, Col. 854
• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, pp. 299, 307, 375, 398
• Friedrich Johann Buck: Biographies of the deceased mathematicians in general and of the great Prussian mathematician P. Christian Otters, who died more than a hundred years ago, credibly promoted to print, especially in two departments. Hartung & Zeise, Königsberg and Leipzig, 1764, p. 42
• Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Duncker and Humblot Publishing House, Leipzig, 1903, p. 43
• Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski: The University of Königsberg in the early modern period. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne, 2008, ISBN 9783412201715 , p. 52 f.