Samuel Eisenmenger

Samuel Eisenmenger (born September 28, 1534 in Bretten , † February 28, 1585 in Bruchsal ), called Siderocrates , was a German physician , theologian and astrologer . 1557–1568 he was professor of astronomy at the University of Tübingen , then personal physician to several princes.

Life

As the son of Johann Eisenmenger, pastor in Bretten, he attended the city school in his hometown, was in Strasbourg at the Collegium Wilhelmitatum from 1549 and enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in 1551 . Here he was promoted by Philipp Melanchthon , Baccalaureus , moved to the University of Heidelberg and the University of Tübingen , where he obtained the degree of master's degree on January 21, 1554 . In 1557 he was appointed to the professorship for mathematics and astronomy at the University of Tübingen as the successor to Philipp Imsser , together with Johann Scheubel . Apian was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1563 and received his doctorate in medicine on October 31, 1564 . During this time he dealt with cartography and the astrological interpretation of solar and lunar eclipses . In 1568 he was removed from office because he was a sympathizer of the Silesian theologian Kaspar Schwenckfeld .

Over time, Eisenmenger became the personal physician of the Bishop of Speyer , the Margrave of Baden , the Archbishop of Cologne and the Bishop of Strasbourg .

He edited the work of Paracelsus and published works on the application of astrology in medicine.

Cyclopaedia Paracelsica Christiana. Three books about the origin and origins of the free arts, including the Physiognomia, obern Wunderwercken und Witterungen , Brussels, 1585
De methode iatromathematicae conjonctionis qua astrologiae fundamenta certissima indicantur , Strasbourg, 1563,
De usu partium coeli in commendationem astronomine , Strasbourg, 1563
Oratio de methodo iatromathematicae… eam semper medias veteribus et recentibus usui necessario fuisse… et astrologiae indicatur , Strasbourg, 1569
Prognosticon and prophecy of the most fortunate things from the MDLXIIII Jar to the MDCVII are drawn and compiled from the eclipses and large ephemeris of the highly educated Cypriani Leovicii and the Prognostico Samuelid Syderocratis , Basel, 1568

Stefan Rhein: The "Cyclopaedia Paracelsica Christiana" and its editor Samuel Siderocrates: Encyclopedia as an anti-humanist martial arts script . In: Franz M. Eybl u. a. (Ed.): Encyclopedias of the early modern period . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, pp. 81-97
Eisenmenger, Samuel. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 8, Leipzig 1734, column 635.
Heinz-Peter Mielke: EISENMENGER, Samuel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp. 538-540. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )