Amplonius Rating de Berka (* 1363 or 1364 in Rhine mountain "† 1435 in Cologne) was a German scientist and physician.

Due to the name it is to be assumed that its ancestors originate from Ratingen. After attendance of the Soester Patroklischule Amplonius from 1385 to 1388 at the Prager university studies. There it acquires 1385 the degrees of a Bakkalars of the sieved free arts. it receives the head coverage of a Magister Artium, the Magisterbirett attained a doctorate to 1388. it leaves itself to 1391 at the University of Cologne writing, in order to continue one year after in Erfurt the study of the medicine. 1392 become Amplonius the first doctor of the medicine at the university again-created at that time. Of 5. May 1394 by 1 February 1395 he dressed the office of the rector as the second.

To a stay in Vienna Amplonius returns to Cologne. He teaches at the medical faculty of the university, at which he began his medicine study. He is twice a rector of this university. Its working is interrupted from 1417 to 1423. In this time it is Dekan of the pin church pc. Viktor in Mainz actively.

1410 put on Amplonius a catalog to its books. The 3748 treatises in 633 Codices, specified in it, it donated from him 1412 created Collegium Amplonianum, where students from Rhine mountain live free of charge and to eat and for their study could prepare. By donations the library existence already became larger in 16. Century on over 1.200 Codices. The books were above all theological and medical papers as well as volumes to canonical and Roman right, as well as writings to that artes liberal. The Bibliotheca Amploniana is considered as the largest still closed received handwriting collection of a medieval scholar.

Amplonius was a body physician of the emperor Sigismund (HRR). Amplonius lies in the Apostelkirche in Cologne buried.

The Amplonius High School in its hometown Rhine mountain carries its names.

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