Andreas Aurifaber

Andreas Aurifaber (also: Goldschmidt, * 1514 in Breslau, † December 12, 1559 in Königsberg ) was a German physician.

Life

The brother of John Aurifaber ( Vratislaviensis ) went on 8 August 1527, the University of Wittenberg, where he the academic degree of bachelor and on August 28, 1534 earned a master's degree on March 1, 1532. After he was admitted to the Senate of the faculty of philosophy in 1537, he went in 1539 as a school principal to Gdansk, 1541 in the same capacity to Elbing. He returned again in 1542 to Wittenberg, where he married a daughter of Hans Lufft. He held a lecturer lectures on Philipp Melanchthon's De Anima and was in the summer semester 1543 dean of the philosophical faculty.

His medical studies began in Wittenberg he sat in 1544 continued in Padua, for which he was awarded a scholarship by his Duke. After he had his doctorate in Padua on December 1, 1544 as a doctor of medicine, he returned again in 1545 to Prussia and back in 1546 in Königsberg physician to the Duke Albert I of Brandenburg -Ansbach, and Professor of Physics at the Albertina.

He was Rector of the Academy in 1552, and since 1550 with Agnes, daughter of Andreas Osiander reformer, married. In the dispute over the doctrine of justification ( " Osiandrischer dispute" ) he took Osiander's party and had great influence on Duke Albrecht.

Works

• Historia succini ( 1561), a monograph on amber, reprinted as an appendix to the 4th book of Rosenau issued by his relatives Lorenz Scholz Consilia et Epistolae Cratonis.
• Annotationes in Phaemonis libellum de cura canum; Wittenberg, 1545