Tobias Tandler

Tobias Tandler, also: Tendeler, Tendier, Tandeler; (* July 24, 1571 in Dresden (or Torgau ); † August 3, 1617 in Wittenberg ) was a German physician and mathematician.

Life

The son of the master builder Christoph Tandler was accepted into the Princely School of St. Augustin in Grimma on December 24, 1583 . Under its first principal, Adam Siber, the school advanced to become a forge for the Saxon pastors and civil servants. In a tightly organized daily routine, the students were primarily taught knowledge of religion and ancient languages. Here Tandler acquired a solid education, insights and experiences that developed and lastingly shaped character and way of life. An academic career was planned for him from an early age. His matriculation at the University of Wittenberg on September 1, 1584 can be seen under this impression .

After leaving the grammar school on May 12, 1589, he went to Wittenberg to begin his studies. With the support of an electoral scholarship, he first completed a basic course at the philosophical faculty. Teachers such as Paulus Oleander , Kaspar Straub , Peter Otto and Andreas Schato (1539–1603) should not have left any insignificant impressions here. After continuing his studies at the University of Helmstedt for a short time in 1599 , he returned to Wittenberg and on September 25, 1599 acquired the highest academic degree in philosophy, a master's degree in world wisdom, also known as the seven liberal arts.

His scientific inclinations made him switch to medicine. On October 3, 1600 he obtained under Schato with the dissertation De apoplexia , the degree of a licentiate in medicine and on October 14, 1600 he received his doctorate with the Oratio de contagione to the doctor of medicine. He had reminded himself of Tandler several times when the medical chairs were filled in 1602 and 1603. Nevertheless, his applications had been rejected by the electoral house. In order to secure the livelihood of his family, which had existed since 1600, he completed his habilitation on April 30, 1605 at the philosophical faculty, became an adjunct on May 1, 1605 and took over the professorship of lower mathematics on October 10 of the same year . Although he had been active as an examiner at the philosophical faculty since April 7, 1606, this position was only a transition station for him from the start.

Because on March 4, 1607 he was accepted into the medical faculty of the university, became professor of anatomy and botany and in 1616 took over the second medical professorship. During his academic time at the Wittenberg University, he also performed organizational tasks. In the winter semesters 1607 and 1613 he was rector of the Wittenberg Academy . Tandler fell ill with dropsy, developed a fever and died. His body was buried on August 6, 1617 in Wittenberg. Tandler has made a name for himself in history in many areas of the natural sciences, such as metrology and obstetrics. In terms of genealogy, it should be noted that on October 19, 1600 in Wittenberg he married Sybilla Strauch, the widow of Hieronymus Nymmann , and the daughter of the Wittenberg citizen Aegidius Strauch. The daughter Barbara Tandler (born August 3, 1601 in Wittenberg, † March 12, 1618 in Wittenberg) is known from this marriage.

Selection of works

De natura et curatione tussis, Wittenberg 1595
Disp. III ex Aphorismis Hippocratis de praeparatione, Wittenberg 1599
Disp. IX ex Aphorismis Hippocratis, Wittenberg 1600
De apoplexia, Wittenberg 1600
Disp. I-XII (De anima et corpore humano), Wittenberg 1601
Disp. physica medica de noctisurgio (or Horst), Wittenberg 1602, 1613
Disp. physicarum I-IX, Wittenberg 1604
Dissertationes physicarum enneados tertiae, Wittenberg 1605/06
Dissertationum meteorologicarum I-IX, Wittenberg 1606/07
De melancholia (or Schmilauer and Anomäus), Wittenberg 1608, 1613
De fascinationibus , Wittenberg 1613
Oratio de spectris, quae vigilantibus obveniunt [Prom. Schmilauer], Wittenberg 1608
Anatomes cultorum recensus et ad eadem invitatus, Wittenberg 1609
Democriti de natura hominis Epitome ad Hippocratem Coum, Wittenberg 1609
Diaskepseon cheirourgikon dekas (or Assverus Schmitner), Wittenberg 1610
De ischiade (or Samuel Hafenreffer), Wittenberg 1612
Dissertationes physiso medicae , Wittenberg 1613, 1629
Diaskepseon meteorologicon (IX Dispp.), Wittenberg 1613
De calculo renum et vesicae (or Valentin Emericus), Wittenberg 1613
De matricis praefocatione (or Krös, B. Hettenbach, Cademann), Wittenberg 1614
De anorexia ventriculi (or Franz Joel), Wittenberg 1615
De humoribus humani corporis (or Anton Kindler), Wittenberg 1616
De terra et ejus differentiis (or Wolfgang Sigismund Espich), Wittenberg 1617

literature

Christian Gottlob Lorenz: Grimmenser album: directory of all pupils at the royal school in Grimma, publishing comptoirs, Grimma 1850
Tandler, Tobias. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 41, Leipzig 1744, column 1670 f.
Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
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, p. 319, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7
August Hirsch: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Physicians of All Times and Nations , Volume 5. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Leipzig - Vienna 1887, p. 612

Individual evidence

↑ Often one finds in various reference works the statement that he was born in Dresden, one invokes the entry in his funeral sermon. Very often, however, the information in funeral sermons is flawed because it was written by people who knew little about them. In fact, however, he claims to come from Torgau when registering. This is how this is done in the marriage register in Wittenberg, in the entry in Grimma and his matriculation entry in Wittenberg. There is also an argument against the fact that the father had his main residence in Torgau, where Tandler could be found in the church registers. Therefore, the option remains open until the proof of baptism has been fully clarified.

personal data
SURNAME	Tandler, Tobias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tendeler, Tobias; Tendier, Tobias; Tandeler, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physician and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH	Torgau or Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	August 3, 1617
Place of death	Wittenberg

[1] Often one finds in various reference works the statement that he was born in Dresden, one invokes the entry in his funeral sermon. Very often, however, the information in funeral sermons is flawed because it was written by people who knew little about them. In fact, however, he claims to come from Torgau when registering. This is how this is done in the marriage register in Wittenberg, in the entry in Grimma and his matriculation entry in Wittenberg. There is also an argument against the fact that the father had his main residence in Torgau, where Tandler could be found in the church registers. Therefore, the option remains open until the proof of baptism has been fully clarified.