Paul Dumerich

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Paul Dumerich (also: Paul Dummrich, Paulus Dummerich ; born January 28, 1527 in Halle (Saale) ; † July 19, 1583 in Erfurt ) was a German pedagogue , philologist, mathematician and university professor .

Life

He was enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on April 23, 1543 and studied with Philipp Melanchthon . On August 14, 1550 he acquired the degree of master's degree and was admitted to the Senate of the Philosophical Faculty on June 15, 1552. In the winter semester of 1558/59 he entered the deanery with his only surviving script.

1561 he went to Erfurt and was there in 1562 by the magistrates of the city of Erfurt for the first rector of the company founded in 1561 Evangelical Council Gymnasium appointed. For this he had drawn up the first curriculum and the disciplinary code. He exercised this office with an interruption in the years 1571-1575 until his death.

From 1564 he also taught dialectics , ethics and mathematics as a professor at the University of Erfurt , and later also ancient Greek .

In the last years of his life his strength dwindled more and more, so that as rector he had to part with some of his official business. He died unmarried and was buried in the Michaeliskirche , where an epitaph was erected for him afterwards .

plant

  • De congressu Bononiensi Caroli Imperatoris et Clementis Pontificis oratio. Wittenberg 1559 ( online )

literature

  • Johann Samuelersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Friedrich August Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1836, 1st section, part 28, p. 275
  • Hermann Johann Christian Weissenborn: Hierana: I. II. - Contributions to the history of the Erfurt scholarly school system. Verlag Carl Villaret, Erfurt, 1862, p. 39 online
  • Heinz Scheible, Corinna Schneider: Melanchthon's correspondence volume 11 people AE. (MBW), frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 2003, ISBN 3-7728-2257-6 , p. 372
  • Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel, Günther Wartenberg: Georg Major (1502–1574) - A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. not 1523, after Paul Eber : Calendarium historicum. Wittenberg 1573