Peter Burckhard

Peter Burckhard (also: Burchard; * around 1461 in Ingolstadt ; † March 30, 1526 in Ingolstadt) was a German medic.

Life

Burckhard enrolled on July 15, 1479 at the University of Ingolstadt , where he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree and on March 12, 1484 was accepted into the philosophical faculty. He then devoted himself to medical studies and traveled to Italy, where he received his doctorate in medicine on December 20, 1490 in Ferrara . After returning to Germany in 1497, he became professor of medicine at the university in his hometown . In 1504 he became the personal physician of Prince-Bishop Gabriel von Eyb in Eichstätt and worked from 1506 to 1518 as a doctor in Nuremberg , Ulm and Regensburg .

Apparently on the recommendation of Christoph von Scheurl , he was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg on September 29, 1518 . Burchard was involved in the events of that time because he was suspected of having sent compromising material about Martin Luther to Johannes Eck during the Leipzig disputation . Burckhard was able to refute those assumptions, because in the summer semester of 1520 he was elected to the office of rector of the university. It was precisely during this time that he experienced the greatest beginnings in the history of the Reformation.

As rector he was obliged to proclaim the bull of excommunication against Luther. After legal advice, however, he rejected Luther's opponent Eck in his request. In addition, in the turmoil of the Wittenberg movement, tumultuous student crowds emerged , against which he turned. After he had become dean of the medical faculty in the winter semester , he returned to his hometown in 1521 as a doctor and professor of medicine, where he worked until the end of his life. Among his contemporaries, he was considered an excellent knowledge of the Greek language. Among other things, he enabled Leonhard Fuchs to have his Basel Galen edition published in 1538.

Selection of works

• Parva Hippocratis Tabula, 1519 Wittenberg

literature

• Norbert Ziener: Physician biographies (Peter Burckhard - Johann Freitag) from the Elenchus quorundam Bavariae medicorum of the Munich court librarian Andreas Felix von Oefele . Erlangen-Nuremberg 1967
• Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon's correspondence people . 11, p. 243
• Carl Prantl, Karl von Prantl: History of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Ingolstadt, Landshut, Munich . Munich 1872; Reprint: Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1968
• Jürgen Helm and Karin Stukenbrock: Anatomy: Sections of a medical science in the 18th century . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-515-08107-0 , p. 170
• Nicolaus Müller: The Wittenberg Movement 1521 and 1522 . 1911
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502–1652). A biobibliographical overview . In: Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and social affairs in Central Germany during the Reformation . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7