Simon Titius

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Simon Titius (also: Ditz, Tityus ; * 1521 in Weimar ; † 1576 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German medic and physicist.

Life

Titius enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in the summer semester of 1541 under the rectorate of Kilian Goldstein . From November 2, 1549, he continued his studies at the University of Tübingen , where Leonhart Fuchs was the rector's office at that time . Here he acquired the bachelor's degree on March 12, 1550 and the master's degree in philosophical sciences on July 16, 1550 . After his doctorate in medicine, he was won over by Andreas Aurifaber for the second medical professorship at the University of Königsberg , where he arrived in November 1553.

On May 24, 1554, he was also given the professorship of physics and introduction to the art of medicine (Isagogen medicam) with an allowance of 50  guilders  (fl.). In addition, he received an appointment as personal physician to Duke Albrecht of Prussia . When Aurifaber died, he was promoted to the first medical professorship in 1560. He worked in this role until the end of his life. From 1558 to 1565 he was the teacher of Prince Albrecht Friedrich and from 1567 personal physician to Anna Maria von Braunschweig . He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semester of 1555, in the winter semester of 1556/57, in the summer of 1561 and in the winter semesters of 1564/65 and 1568/69 .

Titius was married to Barbara Ungermann.

Works

  • Practica Teutsch, on the MDLV. Jar, In honor of the most luminous, high-born Fuersten and Herr / Herr Albrechte to the parents Marggraffen in Brandenburg in Prussia etc. Hertzog. By Simonem Titium, Artium & Medicinae Doctorem, vnd Professorem zu Koenigsperg in Prussen etc. From the new Tabulis Prutenicis garechnet vnd ​​Practiced. Koenigsberg 1554
  • Practica Teutsch, on the MD LVI. Jar. In honor ... Mr. Albrechte to his parents Marggraffen zu Brandenburg, in Prussia. Koenigsberg 1555
  • Themata de principiis et causis certitudinis, in disputationes duas digesta. Koenigsberg 1563
  • Oratio de officio et laudibus principiis boni, ... memoriae Alberto Marchioni Brandeburgici Duci Prussiae primo. Koenigsberg 1573

literature

  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt: Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, pp. 299, 307, 393
  • Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski: The University of Königsberg in the early modern period. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne, 2008, ISBN 9783412201715 , pp. 48–49
  • Thomas Anselmino: Medicine and pharmacy at the court of Duke Albrechts of Prussia: (1490-1568). Verlag Palatina, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-932608-32-2 , p. 70
  • Harry Scholz: About doctors and healers at the time of Duke Albrecht of Prussia. In .: Yearbook of the Albertus University in Königsberg-Pr. Holzner, Würzburg, 1962, vol. 12, p. 74

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Eduard Förstemann: Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Leipzig 1841, p. 190 column a, no.29, entry: Simon Ditz Wimariensis, cf. also Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502 to 1602. Verlag Duncker and Humblot, Leipzig, 1903, p. 97
  2. ^ Heinrich Hermelink: The matriculations of the University of Tübingen. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1906, Vol. 1, p. 344
personal data
SURNAME Titius, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ditz, Tityus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1521
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH 1576
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)