Stephan Wild

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Stephan Wild (also: Wildicus, Wildt ; * around 1495 in Pleinfeld ; † March 22, 1550 in Zwickau ) was a German medic.

Life

Wild was a student at the grammar school in Zwickau before he enrolled at the University of Ingolstadt on October 8, 1514 . Here he first completed his studies at the philosophical faculty and acquired the degree of baccalaureus in the liberal arts. He may have followed Peter Burckhard and enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on July 25, 1518 . Here he completed his philosophical training with the acquisition of the highest philosophical degree, that of a master's degree in world wisdom, on February 14, 1518. He then devoted himself to the study of medicine and received his doctorate on January 28, 1521 as a doctor of medicine.

On June 2 of the same year, he was admitted to the medical school. After his former mentor Burkhard left the Wittenberg University, Martin Luther and his friends recommended him to Elector Friedrich the Wise, together with Augustin Schurff, as a professor of medicine. The elector did not want to accept the recommendation at first, since in 1520 Wild had caused a student crowd against Lucas Cranach the Elder and his journeymen. Nevertheless, it was decided to split the only medical professorship and transferred the professorship for practical medicine to Wild for 50 florins .

As early as the late summer of 1522 he was working outside of Wittenberg. Since he could no longer follow his lectures, he submitted his farewell to the Saxon elector. In 1523 Wild was employed by the council in Zwickau with a salary of 40 guilders as a syndic for 10 years. Here he had to visit the pharmacies and put his medical skills to the service of the city. Among other things, he interrogated a Jewish doctor, issued a certificate for an ophthalmologist, and when the so-called sweat fever broke out in Zwickau in 1529 , he had his hands full.

In Zwickau he obtained citizenship in 1527/28. After his service in Zwickau was over, he was hired on September 1, 1534 as personal physician to Elector Johann Friedrich I of Saxony . Since he was not obliged to stay at the electoral court, he took a position in the council of the city of Zwickau in 1534 and belonged to it until the end of his life. After the Franciscan monastery in Zwickau was closed, Wild acquired the part adjoining the Grünhainer Hof and built a few houses there.

Act

Wild, who was friends with Georg Rörer and Benedikt Pauli , supported Luther, among other things, in the council's dispute with the clergy there. He represented the efforts of the Evangelical Church and supported it. Philipp Melanchthon and Joachim Camerarius the Elder attended his funeral . He himself is probably the unnamed author of a pamphlet on English sweat from 1529 and a Phisonomei that appeared in Zwickau in 1530. He is also known as the author of a recipe for a plague exiterium , which Petrus Sibyllenus published under the title De Peste in Prague in 1564 (and more often).

family

Wild was married twice. His first marriage was before February 17, 1521 with Anna († January 21, 1540 in Zwickau), the daughter of the Wittenberg official Anton Niemeck. His daughter Sybille († September 8, 1563 in Wittenberg) married the son of the same name of the Saxon Chancellor Christian Beyer in 1541 . The daughter Agathe († before 1552) married the doctor Goar Wigand in 1545. In 1541 he concluded his second marriage with Clara Engel from Zwickau († March 1, 1579 in Zwickau).

literature

  • Nikolaus Müller : The Wittenberg Movement 1521 and 1522. The events in and around Wittenberg during Luther's stay in the Wartburg. Letters, files and similar personal details. 2nd Edition. MH successor, Leipzig 1911.
  • Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502–1652) - A biobibliographical overview. In: Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and social affairs in Central Germany during the Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 9783374024377
  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsischer Gymnasiallehrerverein: Overview of the historical development of the grammar schools. BG Teubner, 1900, p. 241
  2. ↑ E. Herzog: Two old physicate appointments from the years 1523 and 1546. In: Annalen der Staatsarzneikunde. 1848, pp. 194-200
  3. ↑ Adolph Erlenmeyer : Archive of the German Society for Psychiatry and Judicial Psychology. Neuwied, Vol. 1, 1858, pp. 173-174 ( Google books ).
personal data
SURNAME Wild, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wildicus, Stephanus; Wildt, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH Pleinfeld
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1550
Place of death Zwickau