Jacob Milich
Jakob Milich, also Mühlich, scholars Name Milichius (born 21 or January 24, 1501 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † November 10, 1559 in Wittenberg ) was a German mathematician and physician.
Life
As the son of a distinguished father, he enjoyed in his youth a comprehensive education so that he could enroll in 1513 at the University of his native city. Here he acquired already in the winter semester of the following year the academic degree of bachelor and in the winter semester 1520 the degree of Master of Liberal Arts. His teachers here were, among others, the humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam and Ulrich Zasius been, where he was also on friendly terms.
Subsequently he devoted himself to a medical degree, moved to the University of Vienna and then, attracted by Philipp Melanchthon went, in 1524 at the University of Wittenberg. Here he became his table companion and obtained in 1525 the chair of the educational Pliny lectures on Latin grammar, took over in 1527 at the same time the professor to cosmology. After he resigned his professorship in Latin, he took over the chair of mathematics in addition to lower Johann Wolmar, who taught Maths.
After Caspar was Lindemann died, he received his doctorate at November 16, 1536 to the licentiate and doctor of medicine. Then he is taken in medical school on November 27, 1536 Professor of Anatomy. It soon became clear that Milich oriented to the basic theological direction of time, ie, so that the healing attributed directly to God as the Giver of all good. He stressed the benefits that can drag especially theologians from the contemplation of nature.
From the experience of its run in Wittenberg practice he developed conditions to keep the human body healthy. Above all, it was he who rejected the Arabic and Latin sources in medical training and instead the Greek medicine made available. He also lectured on history and law. In 1544 he rose to the second medical professorship and was in 1548 the first medical professor become. After the summer semester 1528, in the summer semester 1535 and winter semester 1535/36 Dean of the philosophical and in the winter semester 1538/39, in the summer semester 1539, in the summer semester 1540, in the summer semester 1543, in the winter semester 1548/49, in the winter semester 1549/50, in the summer term 1557, summer term 1559 was dean of the medical faculty, he was in the summer semester 1536, in the winter semester 1541/42, in the summer semester 1549, and in the summer semester 1556 rector of the university.
Since 1529 he was with Susanna Mo ( o) Auschwitz († June 23, 1566 in Wittenberg), a sister of Augustin Schurff married.
The lunar crater Milichius is named after him.
Works
- Orationes de vita Hippocratis, Geleni Avicennae
- De consideranda sympathia & antipathia in Rerum Natura
- De arte medica Oratio
- De studio doctrinae anatomicae. Wittenberg, 1550.
- De paribus & motibus cordis
- Commentariue in secundum Librum Plinii de hist Mundi. Haguenau 1534, Leipzig 1537.
- Quaestio: recte dictum to a Xenophone: bibendum eat ita, ut litiens desinas
- Oratio de pulmone