Peter Memmius
Peter Memmius (* 1531 in Herentals in Flanders; † July 17, 1587 in Lübeck ) was a doctor and university lecturer in the 16th century.
Memmius had to give up his medical work in Utrecht because of the religious persecution in the run-up to the Eighty Years' War and in 1568 he accepted the position of city physician in Rostock , with which a full professorship at the medical faculty of the University of Rostock was connected. In addition, in 1571 he became the personal physician of Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg-Güstrow. The remuneration as a ducal personal physician was 100 thalers, a certain amount of rye and an ox a year. In 1572 Memmius accompanied Duke Ulrich to the Danish court, where he is said to have treated the Danish King Friedrich II . Memmius was rector of the University of Rostock in 1572 and 1578.
In 1581 he took the position of the city physician in Lübeck, but from January 1587 to May 1588 he looked after Duke Albrecht VII of Mecklenburg as personal physician and general inspector of the court pharmacy in Schwerin .
The doctor and university professor Abraham Memmius was his son.
literature
- Karl Ernst Hermann Krause: Memmius, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 310.
- August Blanck , Axel Wilhelmi : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin: Herberger 1901, p. 9f (No. 60)
Web links
- Literature about Peter Memmius in the state bibliography MV
- Entry on Peter Memmius in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Memmius, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Doctor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1531 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herentals |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1587 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |