Johannes Magirus

Johannes Magirus was a German physician and natural philosopher. He was born at Fritzlar about 1560; his background was Lutheran. He studied at the University of Padua under the Italian philosopher Jacopo Zabarella, and took a medical degree at the University of Marburg in 1585.

Works

Physiologiae Peripateticae libri sex. This was a textbook treatment of Aristotelian philosophy. It drew on the works of Hermolao Barbaro, Gasparo Contarini, Thomas Erastus, Philipp Melanchthon, Arcangelus Mercenarius, Francesco Patrizzi, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Jakob Schegk, Johannes Velcurio, Francesco Vimercato, and Jacopo Zabarella.