Thomas Reinesius

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Thomas Reinesius (born December 13, 1587 in Gotha , † February 16, 1667 in Leipzig ; actually Thomas Reines ) was a German doctor , philologist and politician .

Life

Reinesius was the son of the tailor Johannes Reines and his wife Anna Zimmer. He was discovered early on as gifted and attended school at the age of three. He also received private tuition with two brothers. He attended the grammar school in Gotha under Andreas Wilke and was held back as a Primus for several years because of his youth before he was sent to the university. It was not until June 1605 that he was enrolled at the University of Wittenberg . The theologian Friedrich Balduin urged Reinesius to study theology, but he turned to medicine , especially since he also suffered from a speech defect in his youth that would not have allowed him to work as a preacher. In Wittenberg, Reinesius mainly heard medicine from Daniel Sennert , but he also maintained good contacts with the philologist and poet Friedrich Taubmann .

In the summer semester of 1608, Reinesius moved to the University of Jena , where he read on philosophy and the art of memory even before taking his master's degree . On August 8, 1609, he received his master's degree in Jena. In 1610 he traveled to Prague, where he met the alchemists Martin Ruland and Oswald Crollius and was also allowed to enter the laboratory of Emperor Rudolph II . In Prague, Reinesius taught the young nobleman Julius von Schlick and the sons of the imperial pharmacist Erndel , with whom he stayed.

In 1612 he continued his studies at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder . Then he turned to Italy on the advice of Henning Arnisaeus and heard here in 1613 on the Padua with Hieronymus Fabricius from Aquapendente . He was also interested in old manuscripts, statues and inscriptions .

In 1614, through the mediation of a relative, he received a medical professorship at the University of Altdorf , where he matriculated on January 1, 1615 as a doctor of medicine and crowned poet . In the spring of 1615 he married Magdalena Tezel, the daughter of a Nuremberg councilor. 1617 moved to Hof (Saale) as a city ​​physician . In 1618 he took a reputation as gräflich-Reussischer personal physician and inspector, and Professor of the School in Gera on.

Around 1627 Reinesius initially moved to Altenburg as the ducal-Saxon personal physician . Due to his services in the time of the plague , he also received the office of city physician there and later also became mayor of Altenburg. He remained in these offices until 1660. In severe epidemics he lost his first wife and children. A second marriage, from 1636 to 1657, with Dorothea Lotse remained both joyless and childless.

In 1660 he left Altenburg, received the title of an electoral councilor and moved to Leipzig. There he devoted himself primarily to his philological studies and theological considerations. Childless and without siblings, he suspended mild foundations in his will for poor citizens and students in his home town of Gotha and in Altenburg.

His character is described as "headstrong", his scientific achievements include above all text-critical studies on the Latin, ancient Greek and Punic languages, some of which he developed in extensive scientific correspondence, some of which have also remained unpublished. Reinesius' library fell partly to the Zeitz Abbey Library and partly to various collectors, especially in the Netherlands.

Works (selection)

  • Chemiatria, hoc est, Medicina nobili et necessaria sui parte, Chemia instructa et exornata , Gera 1624.
  • Ιστοϱούμενα linguae Punicae , Altenburg 1637.
  • De Deo Endovellico commentatio parergica , Altenburg 1637
  • Variarum lectionum libri tres priores , Frankfurt am Main 1640.
  • Defensio variarum lectionum , Rostock 1653.
  • Inscriptio vetus Augustae Vindelicorum haud pridem eruta , Leipzig 1655.
  • Epistolae, in quibus multae inscriptiones veteres hactenus ineditae vulgantur, emendantur, explicantur, Leipzig 1660.
  • Aenigmati Patavino Oedipus e Germania, hoc est marmoris Patavini inscripti obscuri interpretatio , Leipzig 1661.
  • T. Petroni [i] Arbitri in Dalmatia nuper repertum Fragmentum, cum epicrisi et scholiis, Leipzig 1666.
  • Epistolarum ad Johannem Vorstium scriptarum fasciculus , Cölln 1667.
  • Epistolarum ad Nesteros, patrem Et filium, conscriptarum farrago , Bayreuth 1669.
  • Epistolae, ad clarissimum virum Christianum Daumium , in quibus de variis scriptoribus disseritur, loca obscura multa illustrantur, corrupta emendantur , Hamburg 1670.
  • De Palatio Lateranensi eiusque comitiva commentatio parergica , Jena 1679.
  • Schola iure-consultorum medica, relationum libris aliquot comprehensa , Leipzig 1679.
  • Syntagma antiquarum inscriptionum , Leipzig 1682.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corpus Inscriptorum Vitebergense. (on-line)
  2. ↑ Matriculation Altdorf I, p. 134, No. 3996. (online)
personal data
SURNAME Reinesius, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pure, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1587
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1667
Place of death Altenburg