Nicolaus Taurellus

Nicolaus Taurellus

Nicolaus Taurellus (Latin, from German: Nikolaus Öchslin[1][2]) (November 26, 1547 – September 28, 1606) was a German philosopher and medical academic.

Life

He was born in the County of Mömpelgard, then part of the Duchy of Württemberg. With support from Duke Georg I. of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, he read theology at University of Tübingen and medicine at the University of Basel, where he lectured on physical science. He subsequently became professor of medicine at the University of Altdorf. [3] There he died in 1606 from the plague, despite treatment by Ernst Soner.

He attacked the dominant Aristotelianism of the time, and endeavoured to construct a philosophy which should harmonize faith and knowledge, and bridge over the chasm made by the first Renaissance writers who followed Pomponazzi. Scholasticism he condemned on account of its unquestioning submission to Aristotle. Taurellus maintained the necessity of going back to Christianity itself, as at once the superstructure and the justification of philosophy.[3]

His chief works were Philosophiae Triumphus (1573); Synopsis Metaphysicae Aristolelis (1596); De Rerum Aeternitate (1604); and a treatise written in criticism of Caesalpinus entitled Caesae Alpes (1597). See Schmid-Schwarzenburg, Nicolaus Taurellus (1860 and 1864).[3]

Works

Notes

  1. ↑ Herbert Jaumann: Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit: Bio-bibliographisches Repertorium, Band 1, Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-016069-2, ISBN 978-3-11-016069-7 S. 647
  2. ↑ in 19th century translated to French as Nicolas Tourot. No Google Book hit before 1859
  3. 1 2 3 Chisholm 1911.
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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Taurellus, Nicolaus". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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