Nicolas Cop

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Nicolas Cop (* around 1501 in Paris ; † 1540 ; also Nicolaus Cop, Nicolaus Copus; Kopp; fr .: Nicola) was a rector and doctor .

Life

He was the youngest son of Wilhelm Kopp , the personal physician of the French king Franz I and friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam . His brothers Jean and Michel became canons and legal counsel in Paris and pastor in Geneva, respectively.

Cop studied philosophy and medicine in Paris, taught philosophy at the Collège Sainte-Barbe from 1530 and was appointed rector of the University of Paris on October 10, 1533 . His successor at the Collège Sainte-Barbe was the Portuguese humanist and educator André de Gouveia . He was friends with the king's sister Margaret of Navarre . He used his post to rehabilitate their work Le Miroir de l'âme pécheresse .

After his Protestant inaugural address of November 1, 1533, which was most likely written with the participation of Johannes Calvin , both had to flee Paris. Cop went to Basel until February 1534 and then met Erasmus and Ludwig Bär in Freiburg . He kept in touch with the reformers in Strasbourg and Ludovicus Carinus , whom he probably knew from Paris.

He went back to Paris, where he obtained his medical license in May 1536 . The following year he was recalled to Scotland , where the newly married Madeleine of France fell ill. He also taught medicine at the University of Paris, but died suddenly in the winter of 1539/40.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher (Ed.): Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volumes 1-3. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1995, ISBN 0-8020-2507-2 , pp. 337 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ H. Da .: Cop, Michel . In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2, Attinger, Neuchâtel 1924
  3. ↑ John C. Olin (Ed.); Desiderius Erasmus: Six Essays on Erasmus and a Translation of Erasmus' Letter to Carondelet, 1523. Fordham University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-8232-1024-3 , p. 82
  4. ^ Henri Tollin: Biographical Contributions to the History of Tolerance. Gustav Harnecker, Frankfurt (Oder) 1866, p. 53 f. ( Full text in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Cop, Nicolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cop, Nicolaus; Copus, Nicolaus; Kopp, Nicolaus; Cop, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rector and medic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1501
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1540