Philipp Menzel
Philipp Menzel (born October 15, 1546 at Sandsee Castle near Pleinfeld , † April 1613 ) was a German doctor , poet and botanist who was a professor at the University of Ingolstadt . He is best known as the author of an early German book on botany .
Life
Philipp Menzel was born in 1546 as the son of Heinrich Menzel, the Kastner of the Sandsee office . He was baptized in the St. Nicholas Church in Pleinfeld.
Menzel studied in Ingolstadt from 1560 , where he became professor of poetry in 1568 and the university's first poeta laureatus in 1571 . He then went to Italy and studied medicine in Padua , where he matriculated on July 15, 1571, and Bologna , where he received his doctorate, and after returning in 1573 was professor of medicine in Ingolstadt.
His son Albert Menzel († 1632) was also a professor of medicine in Ingolstadt and personal physician to Duke Wolfgang of Bavaria , continued the herbarium and his father's book on the flora of the Ingolstadt area, which appeared in 1618.
Fonts
- with Albert Menzel: Synonyma Plantarum, seu simplicium, ut vocant, circa Ingolstadium sponte nascentium , 1618 ( digitized version of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ).
literature
- Laetitia Boehm, Johannes Spoerl (ed.): The Ludwig Maximilians University in its faculties . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1972, pp. 190–191 google books .
- Karl Bosl: Bosl's Bavarian biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries , Regensburg 1983, p. 520 ( digital ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gottfried Mertens: Market Pleinfeld. A look into the past. Eichstätt 1984. p. 255.
- ↑ Matricula Nationis Germanicae Artistarum in Gymnasio Patavino (1553-1721), ed. by Lucia Rossetti, Padova 1986, p. 31, no. 258.
Web links
- Literature by and about Philipp Menzel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menzel, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor, poet and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1546 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sandsee Castle near Pleinfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1613 |