Philipp Scherbe
Philipp Scherbe (also Philipp (us) Scherbius or Philipp Scherb , * 1553 in Bischofszell , † June 11, 1605 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ) was a Swiss physician and philosopher .
Life
Scherbe enrolled at the University of Basel in 1567/8 , where he switched to the medical faculty in 1572, enrolled in Heidelberg on August 10, 1577 , in Padua on December 15, 1578 , attended the University of Bologna in 1579 and enrolled on August 29 , 1578 September 1579 at the University of Rome . Finally, on September 6, 1580, he received his doctorate in medicine in Basel.
There he taught logic from 1581 to 1586, and in 1584 he also taught ethics and medicine for a year as Thomas Erastus ' successor . In 1586 he accepted a call to the University of Altdorf , where he - as a colleague of Nikolaus Taurellus ' - read primarily those based on the texts of Galen , Hippocrates of Kos and Aristotle , but also logic and physics in a newly created second chair for medicine .
Among his students are Caspar Hofmann and Ernst Soner , who after Scherbe's death in 1605 took over his professorship for practical medicine in Altdorf. Philipp Scherbe represented a pronounced Aristotelianism and adopted the anti-Paracelsism of his Heidelberg teacher Thomas Erastus.
literature
- Ralf Bröer: Antiparacelsism and Trinity. Medical antitrinitarianism from Thomas Erastus (1524–1583) to Ernst Soner (1572–1605). In: Reports on the history of science . Vol. 29, No. 2, 2006, pp. 137-154, ISSN 0170-6233 doi : 10.1002 / bewi.200601135 .
- Wolfgang Mährle: Academia Norica: Science and education at the Nuremberg High School in Altdorf (1575–1623). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07515-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lucia Rossetti (ed.): Matricula Nationis Germanicae Artistarum in Gymnasio Patavino (1553-1721), Padova 1986, p. 44, no. 380.
- ^ Wackernagel: Matriculation Basel II, 170, no.22.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shard, Philipp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scherb, Philipp; Scherbius, Philipp; Scherbius Philippus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss physician and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1553 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bischofszell |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1605 |
| Place of death | Altdorf near Nuremberg |