Samuel Eisenmenger

Samuel Eisenmenger also: Sideocrates ( born September 28, 1534 Bretten, † February 28, 1585 in Bruchsal ), was a German physician, theologian and astrologer.

Life

As the son of Johann Eisenmenger, a pastor in Bretten, he visited the city school of his native city, was from 1549 in Strasbourg at the Collegium Wilhelmi Tatum and enrolled in 1551 at the University of Wittenberg. Here he was encouraged by Philipp Melanchthon Baccalaureus, joined the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Tübingen, where he earned the degree of Master of Arts on January 21, 1554. 1557 he was appointed to the professorship of mathematics at the University of Tübingen, 1563 was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and doctorate at October 31, 1564 as a doctor of medicine. During this time he worked on the cartography and the astrological interpretation of solar and lunar eclipses. In 1568 he was dismissed from his post because he was considered a sympathizer of the Silesian theologian Kaspar Schwenckfeld.

Eisenmenger was over time physician to the Bishop of Speyer, the Margrave of Baden, the Archbishop of Cologne and the Bishop of Strasbourg.

He edited the works of Paracelsus and published works on the application of astrology in medicine.

Works

  • Cyclopaedia Paracelsica Christiana. Drey books were from the origin and tradition of the free men of the arts, even the Physiognomia, upper Wunderwercken and weather conditions, Brussels, 1585
  • De method iatromathematicae conjonctionis qua astrologiae funda certissima indicantur, Strasbourg, 1563
  • De usu partium coeli in commendationem astronomine, Strasbourg, 1563
  • Oratio de methodological iatromathematicae ... eam semper et medias veteribus recentibus usui necessario fuisse ... et astrologiae indicatur, Strasbourg, 1569
  • Prognosticon and prophecy of fürnemsten hire so from MDLXIIII Jar to auff the MDCVII will carry pulled from utter nuts and large ephemeris of Hochgelerten Cypriani Leovicii and from the Prognostico Samuelid Syderocratis and put together, Basel, 1568
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