LC control no. | n 89665416 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Mithob, Burckhard, 1501-1564 |
Variant(s) | Mythobius, Burchard, 1501-1564 Mithobius, Burchard, 1501-1564 Mithoff, Burchard, 1501-1564 Metobius, Burchard, 1501-1564 Mithauff, Burchard, 1501-1564 Mythof, Burchard, 1501-1564 |
Other standard no. | 0000000117595045 |
Associated place | Marburg (Germany) Kassel (Germany) |
Birth date | 1501-04-30 |
Death date | 1564-08-16 |
Place of birth | Neustadt am Rübenberge (Germany) |
Place of death | Münden (Lower Saxony, Germany) |
Affiliation | Philipps-Universität Marburg |
Profession or occupation | Physicians Humanists Mathematicians Astronomers University and college faculty members |
Found in | nuc89-99674: Annuli astronomici, instrumenti cum certissimi ... 1557 (hdg. on DFo rept.: Mithob, Burckhard, 1501-1564; usage: Burchardo Mythobio) Botanicon, continens herbarum, aliorumque Simplicium, quorum usus in Medicinis est, descriptiones, & Iconas ad uiuum effigiatas, ... 1540 p. *ij recto (Burchardo Mithobio) German Wikipedia, viewed February 14th, 2024 (Burkhard Mithoff ; (also Burchardus Mithobius, Burchard Mithoff, Metobius, Mithauff, Mithobius, Mythof); born April 30th, 1501 in Neustadt am Rübenberge, died August 16th, 1564 in Hann. Münden, was a German physician and mathematician. In Erfurt, he joined the Reformation and was a member of the Humanist Circle. Mithoff was appointed to the University of Marburg in 1531. He held the chair of Physics there until 1536, teaching mathematics, astronomy and astrology as a professor. At the same time, he studied medicine. On July 20, 1535, he performed the first dissection of a human head in Marburg. He also served as councillor and personal physician for Landgrave Philipp I of Hessen in 1536, he therefore moved from Marburg to Kassel for this purpose. In 1539 he moved again, this time to Hann. Münden in order to work as the personal physician of Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and other Noblemen) <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkhard_Mithoff> Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek, viewed February 14th, 2024 (Mithoff, Burkhard (1501-1564), student in Rostock, Erfurt (master's degree there in 1525) and Marburg, Dr. med. there in 1530; professor of astronomy and medicine in Marburg; councilor and personal physician to Hess. In Marburg, professor of astronomy and medicine; advisor and personal physician to Hessian Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous and Counts Poppo and Georg Ernst von Henneberg; in 1539 advisor and personal physician to Duke Erich the Elder of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Münden, also to his widow, Duchess Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Calenberg) <https://d-nb.info/gnd/119762889> |