!!!Collimitius Tannstetter, Georgius

b. Rain am Lech (Germany), 1482, 
d. Innsbruck, March 26, 1535, humanist scholar, teacher at the 
University of Vienna 1503-1528 (initially mathematics, later 
medicine), founded the "Sodalitas Collimitiana", worked as 
cartographer (map of Hungary and with Stabius a map of Austria for 
Lazius). Personal physician to Emperor Maximilian I and to King 
Ferdinand I and his children. During the plague epidemic of 1521 he 
wrote a treatise on measures to combat the plague. Became a pioneer in 
the field of history of science by compiling a list of mathematicians 
who had worked at the University of Vienna from the end of the 14th 
century to the beginning of the 16th century ("Viri Mathematici").

!Literature
F. Graf-Stuhlhofer, Humanismus zwischen Hof und 
Universitaet, 1996.



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