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Collimitius Tannstetter, Georgius
© Copyright Georgius Collimitius, woodcut by A. v. Camesina. Collimitius (Tannstetter), 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 Universität, 1996.
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