Jakob Milich

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Jacob Milich. Line engraving by T. de Bry, 1650. Wellcome V0004012.jpg

Jakob Milich , also Mühlich , scholarly name Milichius (born January 21 or 24, 1501 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † November 10, 1559 in Wittenberg ) was a German mathematician and physician.

Life

As the son of a respected father, he enjoyed an extensive upbringing in his youth, so that in 1513 he was able to enroll at the university in his hometown . In the winter semester of the following year, he already obtained the academic degree of a baccalaureate and in the winter semester of 1520 the degree of a master's degree in fine arts . His teachers here were the humanists Erasmus von Rotterdam and Ulrich Zasius , to whom he was also friendly.

Subsequently, he devoted himself to medical studies, switched to the University of Vienna and then, attracted by Philipp Melanchthon , went to the University of Wittenberg in 1524 . Here he became his table companion and in 1525 was appointed professor of the pedagogical Pliny lectures on Latin grammar, and in 1527 also took over the professorship in cosmology. After resigning from his Latin professorship, he took over the chair for lower mathematics alongside Johannes Volmar , who taught higher mathematics.

After Caspar Lindemann died, he received his doctorate on November 16, 1536 as a licentiate and doctor of medicine. Thereupon he was admitted to the medical faculty on November 27, 1536 and professor of anatomy. It soon became clear that Milich was oriented towards the basic theological direction of the time, so that medicine could directly trace back to God as the giver of everything good. He emphasized the benefit that theologians in particular can derive from the observation of nature.

From the experience of his practice in Wittenberg, he developed conditions for keeping the human body healthy. Above all, it was he who rejected the Arabic and Latin sources in the training of medical professionals and instead made Greek medicine available. He also lectured on history and law. In 1544 he rose to the second medical professorship and had become the first medical professor in 1548. After he was Dean of Philosophy in the summer semester 1528, in the summer semester 1535 and in the winter semester 1535/36, and in the winter semester 1538/39, in the summer semester 1539, in the summer semester 1540, in the summer semester 1543, in the winter semester 1548/49, in the winter semester 1549/50, Had been dean of the medical faculty in the summer semester of 1557, summer semester 1559, he became rector of the university in the summer semester 1536, in the winter semester 1541/42, in the summer semester 1549, and in the summer semester 1556 .

Since 1529 he was married to Susanna Mo (o) schwitz († June 23, 1566 in Wittenberg), a sister-in-law of Augustin Schurff .

The lunar crater Milichius is named after him.

Works

  • Orationes de vita Hippocratis, Galeni Avicennae
  • de consideranda sympathia & antipathia in rerum natura
  • de arte medica Oratio
  • de studio doctrinae anatomicae . Wittenberg 1550.
  • de partibus & motibus cordis
  • Commentarii in secundum librum Plinii de hist. Mundi. Hagenau 1534, Leipzig 1537.
  • Quaestio: an recte dictum a Xenophone: bibendum esse ita, ut litiens desinas
  • Oratio de pulmone

literature

personal data
SURNAME Milich, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milich, Jacob; Hardly, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and physician
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1501
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1559
Place of death Wittenberg