{"id":142,"date":"2025-09-15T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/?p=142"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:45:30","slug":"natus-sum-vratislaviae-veni-regiomontem-diary-notes-of-andreas-aurifaber-physician-to-duke-albert-of-hohenzollern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/abstracts\/natus-sum-vratislaviae-veni-regiomontem-diary-notes-of-andreas-aurifaber-physician-to-duke-albert-of-hohenzollern\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Natus sum Vratislaviae &#8230; Veni Regiomontem&#8221;: Diary Notes of Andreas Aurifaber, Physician to Duke Albert of Hohenzollern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard \u0160\u00edpek (National Museum Library, Czech Republic)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This paper explores the diary entries of Andreas Aurifaber (1513\u20131559), a Silesian-born theologian, physician, and professor, who served as personal doctor to Duke Albert of Prussia and taught at the University of K\u00f6nigsberg. His handwritten notes, inscribed into printed astronomical ephemerides, offer a rare autobiographical account from a learned sixteenth-century professional navigating the academic, religious, and political currents of Reformation Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Aurifaber\u2019s annotations span over two decades and include records of personal milestones\u2014his birth, education, family life, professional appointments, and travels. They provide insight into his close ties with leading figures such as Philipp Melanchthon, Katharina Luther, and Joachim Rheticus, and reflect his involvement in contemporary humanist, medical, and astronomical discourses. The blending of Latin and vernacular German in his entries mirrors the multilingual reality of early modern scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>By examining these notes, the paper reconstructs the life and networks of a figure who moved from Wittenberg to Padua and ultimately K\u00f6nigsberg, embodying the mobility and intellectual ambition of his age. Aurifaber\u2019s use of a scientific print medium for recording deeply personal information also sheds light on the intersection of early modern book culture and self-representation.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than presenting a fully developed autobiography, Aurifaber\u2019s diary fragments reveal a scholar negotiating identity, memory, and posterity\u2014leaving us with a vivid, if partial, image of an educated life in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard \u0160\u00edpek (National Museum Library, Czech Republic) This paper explores the diary entries of Andreas Aurifaber (1513\u20131559), a Silesian-born theologian, physician, and professor, who served as personal doctor to Duke Albert of Prussia and taught at the University of K\u00f6nigsberg. His handwritten notes, inscribed into printed astronomical ephemerides, offer a rare autobiographical account from a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}