George Agricola (* around 1530 in acting like brook; "† 12 January 1575 in Amberg) was paedagogue and physician.

Life and working

Agricola registered on 22 September 1548 as a student at the University of Wittenberg, where he acquired the academic degree of a Magisters on 3 August 1553. By a close friendship Philipp Melanchthon, he became on its recommendation to 13. May of 1554 teachers of the upper class to the Martinschule in Amberg and took over from 1555 to 1569 rector advice of this mechanism, under his guidance experienced this mechanism a bloom. During this time it maintained relations with Paul Eber and Johann storm.

As an opponent of the Calvinismus however an assumption was refused to it into the kurfrstliche Therefore it dedicated for different reasons and occupied themselves again 1569 the University of Wittenberg to the self-instruction of the medicine, where it attained a doctorate on 6 April 1570 to the doctor of the medicine.

At the 1. May 1570 it became Stadtphysikus in Amberg and continued to inform beside it to the Martinsschule, for which it wrote 1571 school regulations. Agricolas human education is to be taken out of latin praise speech on the city Amberg, it the 1559 with the attendance of the cure prince from Friedrich III. of the Pfalz published. In addition some medical regulations for the Amberger are governors, whom later cure prince Ludwig VI., and rules of conduct receives with the outbreak from epidemics in Amberg 1571 and 1574.

Genealogy

From its 2 marriages with Magaretha Volg and Veronica Steinhauser, followed 8 children. Michael Agricola, Johann George Agricola and Johann Agricola are the most well-known thereby and a daughter married themselves with the herrschaftlichen judge in Winklarn.

Literature too (1)

Katrin Cura: George Agricola as a pioneer of the industrial safety. Scientific ones round-look 58 (12), P. 638-642 (2005), ISSN 0028-1050

Literature too (2)

• New German biography volume 1 page 97

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