About Matthias Borbonius
Lived 1566 – 1629 (aged 62–63). Matthias Borbonius was a physician, poet and non-fiction writer.
Matthias Borbonius (Czech: Matyáš z Borbenheimu; 1566–1629) was a physician and Neo-Latin epigrammatist of Bohemian or Czech origin who was sometime protomedicus (chief physician) to Władysław IV Vasa. He produced a series of mottoes for various Roman and Holy Roman Emperors, printed in Deliciæ Poetarum Germanorum (Frankfurt, 1612), and is connected with the Latin saying Tempora mutantur ('Times are changed').
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Who was Matthias Borbonius?
physician and epigrammatist (1566–1629)
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Matthias Borbonius was born in 1566 in Kolinec, Kolín.
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Matthias Borbonius died in 1629 in Toruń.
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Matthias Borbonius was a physician, poet and non-fiction writer.
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