Victorinus Schönfeldt
Victorinus Schönfeldt or Victorin Schoenfeldt (* 1525 in Bautzen , † June 13, 1592 in Marburg ) was a German mathematician and court doctor. He was a professor of mathematics and medicine at the University of Marburg .
Schönfeldt acquired a Magister Artium degree from the University of Wittenberg in 1557 and in the same year was appointed professor of mathematics in Marburg on the recommendation of Philipp Melanchthon (whose son-in-law Caspar Peucer he was friends with). In addition to mathematics, he dealt with astronomy and medicine. He defended his dissertation De Angina on May 25, 1566. On May 31, 1566 he was awarded the medical doctorate. Georg Marius gave the speech for this ceremony , the insignia were presented by Landgrave Wilhelm IV and his councilor Johann Nordeck († 1580). With his doctorate, Schönfeldt received permission to practice as a doctor, and he became second professor of medicine (he had given medical lectures at the university since 1563). The double professorship and the associated high salary also led to disagreements in Marburg (with the landgrave and with colleagues). He was the personal physician of Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel (occupied from 1565) and of Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt. He also had a private practice.
In 1583 he and the count's personal physician Johann Wolff were one of the experts in the dispute between the executioner of Marburg (Michael Hütter) - who also carried out medical treatments - and the guild of town bathers and barbers over the treatment of patients. In the report, they advocated a qualification for the city surgeons.
In 1562 he married the daughter Kunigunde of the councilor Johann Nordeck from Kassel.
Fonts (selection)
- Liber de Dysenteriae curatione. Frankfurt 1584.
- Consilium or advice against the plague of the red dysentery and plague. Frankfurt am Main 1584.
- Prognosticon astrologicum. Wittenberg 1561.
literature
- S. Salloch: The Hessian medical system under the Landgrave Wilhelm IV. And Moritz the scholar. Role and work of the princely personal physicians. Dissertation. Marburg 2006 ( http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2006/0697/pdf/dss.pdf )
Web links
- Schönfeld, Victorinus. Hessian biography. (As of March 22, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Remarks
- ↑ On January 19, 1566, during his disputation for admission to the faculty, he dealt with the question "utrum recte ars Medica praedictionibus Astronomicis coniungatur".
- ^ Rolf Heyers: Dr. Georg Marius, called Mayer von Würzburg (1533-1606). (Dental) medical dissertation Würzburg 1957, p. 30 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schönfeldt, Victorinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1525 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bautzen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1592 |
| Place of death | Marburg |