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Melchior Adam (c. 1575 – 26 December 1622) was a German
His major achievement consists of a collection of literary biographies, which were printed in Stuttgart and Heidelberg in five volumes: ''German Philosophers'' (including philologists, poets, mathematicians and physicists), ''German Theologians'', ''Foreign Theologians'', ''Jurists and Politicians'' and ''Medics''. The figures discussed were arranged chronologically by their date of death, most of which lie between 1420 and 1620. His sources were biographical texts, personal records, funeral orations, letters and various academic records.
His 1615 ''Vitae Germanorum philosophorum'' (Lives of German philosophers) contains one of the earliest biographies of
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literary historian.
Life
Adam was born in Grottkau,Nysa
Nysa may refer to:
Greek Mythology
* Nysa (mythology) or Nyseion, the mountainous region or mount (various traditional locations), where nymphs raised the young god Dionysus
* Nysiads, nymphs of Mount Nysa who cared for and taught the infant ...
, Habsburg Silesia (present-day Grodków
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, Opole Voivodeship
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). He visited the college in ''Brieg'' Brzeg
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, then studied on various academies with financial support of his benefactor Joachim von Berg. In 1601 he was appointed schoolmaster at the municipal school of Heidelberg, and later became co-rector and professor at the same institution. He died in Heidelberg
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Works
His major achievement consists of a collection of literary biographies, which were printed in Stuttgart and Heidelberg in five volumes: ''German Philosophers'' (including philologists, poets, mathematicians and physicists), ''German Theologians'', ''Foreign Theologians'', ''Jurists and Politicians'' and ''Medics''. The figures discussed were arranged chronologically by their date of death, most of which lie between 1420 and 1620. His sources were biographical texts, personal records, funeral orations, letters and various academic records.
His 1615 ''Vitae Germanorum philosophorum'' (Lives of German philosophers) contains one of the earliest biographies of Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated ...
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theologians in a deprecating manner, as he himself was a Calvinist
Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Ca ...
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Bibliography
* Vitae Germanorum jureconsultorum et politicorum, qui superiore seculo, et quod excurrit, floruerunt Heidelberg 1611. * Vitae Germanorum philosophorum … Frankfurt 1610 - Heidelberg 1615 * Decades duae continentes vitas theologorum exterorum principium. Frankfurt am Main 1618. * Vitae Germanorum medicorum Heidelberg 1620 * Vitae Germanorum theologorum … Heidelberg 1620 * Vitae Germanorum iureconsultorum et politicorum Heidelberg 1620 * Apographum Monumentorum Haidelbergensium. Heidelberg 1612 * Disce mori oder Sterbekunst. Neustadt a. d. H. 1615 * Parodiae et metaphrases Horatianae. 1616References
Sources
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*Melchior Adam: ''Vitae''
online edition in the projec
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Adam, Melchior 1570s births 1622 deaths People from Grodków People from Austrian Silesia 17th-century German writers 17th-century German male writers 17th-century German historians German male non-fiction writers