Adam of Łowicz
Professor of medicine at the University of Krakow and its rector in 1510–1511
About Adam of Łowicz
Lived 1500 – 1514. Adam of Łowicz was a Polish philosopher, university teacher, physician and humanist.
Adam of Łowicz (also "Adam of Bocheń" and "Adamus Polonus"; born in Bocheń, near Łowicz, Poland; died 7 February 1514, in Kraków, Poland) was a professor of medicine at the University of Krakow, its rector in 1510–1511, a humanist, writer and philosopher.
Life Adam studied in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of Krakow, earning a baccalaureate in 1488 and a master's degree in 1492. He then studied medicine in Italy. Returning to Poland, he served as court physician to Kings Jan I Olbracht, Alexander Jagiellon and Zygmunt I. In 1510 and 1511 he was twice elected rector of the University of Krakow. He opposed the clergy's dominance over the secular estate. An unconventional thinker, he hypothesized the immortality of humankind.
Works Fundamentum scienciae nobilissimae secretorum naturae (1489; alchemy). Dialogus... de quattuor statuum... immortalitatem contentione (Conversations... about Immortality, ca. 1507).
Memorial In 1964, a memorial plaque in his honor was unveiled in Bocheń.
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Professor of medicine at the University of Krakow and its rector in 1510–1511
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Adam of Łowicz was born in 1500 in Bocheń.
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Adam of Łowicz died on 7 February 1514 in Kraków.
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Adam of Łowicz was a philosopher, university teacher, physician and humanist.
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