Paul vom Stein

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Paul vom Stein (also: Petraeus ; * in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † December 31, 1584 ibid) was a German medic, physicist and educator.

Life

Vom Stein came from a noble family established in Franconia . His father Jakob had settled in Königsberg. His brother was the mathematician and court preacher Bonaventura vom Stein . Paul studied at the University of Königsberg , where he received his bachelor's degree on February 19, 1555 and the degree of master's degree on March 26, 1556 . From 1557 on he worked as rector of the cathedral school in Königsberg.

In 1560 he completed an educational trip that took him to France and Italy. At the University of Padua , where he matriculated on April 21, 1561, he received his doctorate in medicine. When he returned to Königsberg, he took over the second medical professorship at the university in 1579 . He qualified for this position on August 21 with a pro loco disputation . He also held the professorship in physics. In 1583 he advanced to the first medical professorship. He also worked as a princely personal physician. He participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was elected rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters 1580/81, 1582/83 and 1584/85 . Vom Stein died during his last term in office.

He was married to Regina Keuter († March 14, 1599), the daughter of the court relative Jacob Keuter. His second wife married Professor Valentin Pannonius .

Paul vom Stein had two sons: the merchant Georg vom Stein († 1625, married to Anna Heilsberger († 1624)); as well as Albrecht vom Stein, doctor of medicine and doctor of the Königsberg old town .

literature

  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part (p. 300, 308, 394)
  • Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history. Königsberg 1886, p. 126
  • J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883, (7th & 8th issue) p. 597

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matricula Nationis Germanicae Artistarum in Gymnasio Patavino (1553-1721), ed. by Lucia Rossetti, Padova 1986, p. 15, no.126.
personal data
SURNAME From the stone, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petraeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, physicist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1584
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)