Michael Scrinius

Michael Scrinius (* Danzig ; † October 13, 1585 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German logician and chronicler of the 16th century.

Life

Little is known about Scirinus' background. A letter tells us that he stayed in Rome in 1556 and then went to Leuven . In 1562 he went to Frauenburg to the house of the cathedral dean Eckehard von Kempen. From here he turned to Königsberg, where on February 10, 1565 he entered the register of the university as ornatissimus ac doctissimas vir D. Michael Scrinius Dantiscanus for one taler. Actually he was not a doctor in that sense, but rather he used the then customary use of the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy, which were often referred to as doctors of philosophy. In the same year, on March 6, 1565, Dorothea, the daughter of the deceasedAndreas Aurifaber married, making him a family member of Andreas Osiander's circle .

Presumably through the mediation of Paul Skalich , he took the position of palace librarian in Königsberg in 1566, in which function he created a library catalog. In addition, he had also gained the trust of Albrecht von Prussia , whose theological advisor he became. In the last years of the duke's life he was natively active in the Osiandrian dispute and in the Skalichian trades. Since he lacked the inner willingness to develop theological ambitions himself, he was appointed professor of logic and metaphysics ( dialectics ) at the University of Königsberg in 1579 , which position he took up with the disputation pro Loco on September 5th.

In 1583 he wrote his Antiquitates nonullae ut sunt epitaphia, elogia epigrammata aliaque quae etiamnum in Italia (Königsberg 1583), which give an insight into the Roman memorials of that time and was probably created during his stay in Rome. He had also taken part in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University and became rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semester of 1584 . After his death an epitaph was built for him in the Königsberg Cathedral . It was a painting that depicted the figure-rich raising of the young man from Naim , which, however, was burned in 1944 during the bombing and the extensive destruction of the cathedral.

literature

• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, part 2, p. 380, addition 67
• Ernst Kuhnert : History of the state and university library in Königsberg, from its establishment to the year 1810. Karl W. Hiersemann, Königsberg 1926, p. 69 f.
• August Rudolph Gebser: The cathedral to Königsberg in Prussia. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1835, p. 204 ( online )
• Josef Bender: History of the philosophical and theological studies in Warmia. Verlag CA Heyne, Braunsberg, 1868, p. 48 ( online )