Yuriy Drohobych

Yuri Drohobytsch ( russin. Юрій Дрогобич; actually Yuri Kotermak - russin Юрій Котермак, in Latin Georgius de Drohobicz Russia; * 1450 in Drohobytsch; † August 4, 1494 in Krakow. ) Was a rotruthenischer philosopher, astronomer, astrologer and the first Ruthenian Doctor medicine. He is also considered ostslawischer author of the first printed Cyrillic book.

Life

Yuri Kotermak grew up in Drohobytsch and graduated to 1473 to study at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The university degree ( 1476 ) and doctoral degree ( 1482 ) in medicine, he graduated from the University of Bologna, where he also served as rector from 1481 to 1482 and taught astronomy and medicine.

Back in Krakow, he taught since 1487 as a professor of medicine at the university there.

In February 1483 in Rome appeared his work Judicium prenosticon magistri Georgii de Drogobicz Russia, is considered the first known printed book by a Ukrainian. In addition to some astrological predictions he treated topics from geography, astronomy and meteorology.