Nicolaus Taurellus

Nicolaus Taurellus (aka Nicholas Oechslin ( Oechslein ) * November 26, 1547 in Württemberg Mömpelgard County (now Montbeliard, Doubs Dép ). † September 28, 1606 in Altdorf bei Nürnberg ) was a physician, philosopher, Lutheran theologian and physicist.

Life

From humble coming - his father was town clerk of Montbéliard - could study through a scholarship of Count Georg I of Württemberg at the University of Tübingen Taurellus. 1563 he obtained his Bachelors degree as a student of Jakob Degen. Two years later, became Taurellus at the Faculty of Philosophy Magister. As such, he moved to study medicine at the University of Basel and graduated successfully in 1570 with a doctorate.

From 1579 on Taurellus worked in Basel as professor of rhetoric and has already taken over the following year, a professor of ethics. In parallel, he took over as the representative of the physician Isaac Cellarius for a short time the medical lectures. In the same year Taurellus accepted an appointment to the University of Altdorf, became a professor of medicine and physics and four times rector.

In 1578 he married Catherine Aesch in Basel Berger, the daughter of Altdorfer town clerk Israel Aesch Berger and his wife Anna alarm clock. This marriage brought forth 13 children, of whom only five survived. Catherine Aesch Berger died 1598. 1599 he married Ursula Haller of Haller Stone, the daughter of a Nuremberg senator.

Taurellus was occasional poet and wrote a work on the emblems. He is regarded as one who has laid the foundation for the eclectic philosophy at the University of Altdorf. In this context, Konrad Feuerlein, Georg Paul Rötenbeck and John to name a storm.

Reception of historic significance was Taurellus ' characterization as "the first German philosopher " by Franz Xaver Schmid from Schwarzenberg in a monograph of this title from the year 1864.

Works

  • Theses Philosophicae, De Animae Ortu rationalism. Nuremberg: . Kauffmann, 1596 Electronic Edition of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel
  • Philosophiae Triumphus seu metaphysica philosophandi methodus. . Basel 1573 Current issue: Latin / German, edited, translated and introduced by Henrik Wels, Frommann - Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2012 ( Editions the Early Modern Period 3), ISBN 978-3-7728-2374-9.
  • Medicae praedictionis methodus. Frankfurt to 1581.
  • Carmina Funebria, Quae Magnorum aliquot Clarorumque virorum felici memoriae dicavit. Nuremberg: . Lochner, 1602 Electronic edition of the University of Mannheim
  • Emblemata Physico - Ethica, Hoc Est: naturae morum moderatricis picta Praecepta. Nuremberg: . Halbmayer, 1617 microfiche edition of the train: IDC, 1981.
  • Tavrellvs Defensvs: H. E. Iac. Wilh. Feverlini ... Dissertatio Apologetica Pro Nic. Tavrello ... Atheismi Et Deismi Iniuste Accusato. Nuremberg: Schmid, 1734 CD -ROM edition, Mannheim. Univ Bibl, 2007 ( Together with Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein ). .
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