Wilhelm Kopp (physician)
Wilhelm Kopp (also Wilhelm Koch, Gulielmus Copus, Guillaume Copus) (* around 1461 in Basel ; † 1532 ) worked from 1512 in Paris as personal physician to the French kings Louis XII. and Franz I.
Around 1474 he was a student of Johannes Heberling , who at that time was listening to Johannes Reuchlin's lectures in Basel . In 1496/97 he looked after Erasmus von Rotterdam in Paris as a doctor and friend.
Kopp is documented in 1500 in Venice and in 1513, 1520, 1523 and 1527 in Paris. In 1510 he translated a work by Paulus of Aigina , Praecepta salubria (7th century).
One of his sons was Nicolas Cop .
literature
- Wilhelm Crecelius : Copus, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 471.
- Stefania Fortuna: Kopp, Wilhelm . In: Burghart Wachinger , Franz Josef Worstbrock (ed.): German Humanism 1480–1520 Author's Lexicon Volume 1. Walter de Gruyter 2009. Sp. 1309–1315 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pauli eginetae p [rae] CEPTA Salubria Guilielmo Copo Basileiensi interprete (1512); Digitized version of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kopp, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koch, Wilhelm; Cook, gulielmus; Copus, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Personal physician to King Francis I of France |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1461 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1532 |