Nicolas Cop

Nicolas Cop (* around 1501 in Paris, † 1540; well Nicolaus Cop, Nicholas Copus; Kopp; fr: . Nicola ) was a rector and physicians.

Life

He was the youngest son of William Kopp, the personal physician to the French king Francis I and a friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam. His brothers Jean and Michel were canons and legal adviser in Paris or pastor in Geneva.

Cop studied in Paris philosophy and medicine, taught philosophy from 1530 at the Collège Sainte -Barbe and was appointed on October 10, 1533 as Rector of the University of Paris. His successor at the Collège Sainte -Barbe was the Portuguese humanist and educator André de Gouveia. He was friends with the king's sister Margaret of Navarre. He used his position to rehabilitate their work Le Miroir de l' âme Pecheresse.

After his Protestant colored inaugural speech of November 1, 1533 which arose most likely with the participation of John Calvin, both had to flee from Paris. Cop went up in February 1534 to Basel and then met in Freiburg with Erasmus and Ludwig Baer. He maintained contact with the reformers in Strasbourg and Ludovicus Carinus, whom he knew well from Paris.

He went back to Paris, where he acquired the medical licentiate in May 1536. The following year he was recalled to Scotland, where the newly married Madeleine was suffering from France. He also taught medicine at the University of Paris, but died suddenly in winter 1539/40.