Nostradamus (* 14 December 1503, one Thursday, around midday in Saint de Provence, Provence; "† 2 July 1566 to salon de Provence), actually Michel de Nostredame, was a pharmacist and allegedly physician by occupation, became however already lifetimes for its prophecies famous, about what the opinions are however controversial.

Life

Family

Its parents were Jacques de Nostredame, royal notary in Saint for at least 1501 and office chiefs since 1513, and de Saint Michel was that oldest of 17 children of the pair. Proven brothers and sisters are Bertrand, Jean, Hector and Antoine.

Particularly of Nostradamus' the son and his pupil and bio graph Jean de Chavigny kolportierten after family legend were the grandfathers Jean de Saint ("† 1518) and Pierre de Notredame ("† 1503 ago) body physicians of the king of Neapel, Sicilies and Jerusalem, Herzog of Lorraine and count of Provence (*1409; "† 1480, which entered provenzalischen people legends as "“le bon roi and/or its oldest son Johann, duke of Lorraine and Kalabrien (*1425; "† 1470). Rather was Pierre de Notredame corn dealer and notary, Jean de Saint was a physician, city treasurer and tax collector.

The family on the paternal side, which originated from the regional Judentum, was obviously converted with the grandfather Pierre (that Guy Gassonet was called original) to the catholic faith. This took the name Nostredame - probably after the church, in which he was baptized, or after the holy day, at that it happened - with the baptism on.

Childhood and training

Its early childhood it has allegedly with his great-grandfather Jean de Saint (and not with its grandfather, who was called and was already dead) to have spent, to it latin, Greek, Hebrew, mathematics and Astrologie have taught is: over Jean however actually nothing at all is well-known after 1504. 1518, after the death of the great-grandfather, became given Michel to Avignon the school attendance (it there possibly lived with its aunt Margarete, which was married with a painter), had however approximately one year later its study (the Trivium in such a way specified, thus grammar, Rhetorik, logic) because of the arrival of the plague to again give up and pharmacists.

1529 it tried to take up the study of the medicine to Montpellier, in order to acquire its doctorate, thereafter again was however briefly ejected (the document [of BIU Montpellier, register S 2 folio 87] exists still) because he had been a pharmacist and therefore "“manual workers"”. Whether it studied differently and actually doctor somewhere became, is completely unknown, although some publishers and correspondent called him in such a way. It admits is only that he took up his moving life again.

Moving years

to 1533 or 1534 he received a letter of the important human Julius Caesar Scaliger, him finally invited on his property de l'Escale into Agen to live, where he four years long was. He married a young noble one, whose name today as Henriette d'Encausse is indicated, 14 years old, with which he had a son and a daughter after short time. Nostradamus lost its family 1535 by a not exactly well-known infection (plague or the for the first time arising Diphtherie).

This family loss, with which because of its failure as a plague physician a reputation loss accompanied, connected with disputes with parents of its wife around the return of the dowry, controversy with Scaliger and a citation of the Inquisition to Toulouse were probably to be gone for it to cause enough, again on journeys. The interest of the Inquisition in it was due allegedly to some years before an ore caster made remark concerned opposite with the production of a Madonnenstatue. It was accused to him that it had said to the man that it would manufacture devil or devil pictures. Defenders of Nostradamus' tried to turn later this remark there that she referred to the aesthetic qualities of the work. One must consider however that it was the time of a radical, protest anti-mash and such a remark could quite be considered as reference to sympathies with Protestant or reforming points of view. One assumed that, Nostradamus is always a strict creditor catholic been and indeed missed he in its writings no opportunity to underline its However an exchange of letters between it and the Protestant amateur astronomer and Lutheraner Lorenz Tubbe (Laurentius Tubbius Pomeranus) are nevertheless delivered. In a letter of Nostradamus at Tubbe from 15 July 1561 it means for example:

Here in salon like elsewhere also because of the faith hate and controversy among the outstanding gentlemen bubble; the anger grows among the defenders of the papistischen tradition"… just like under the Bekennern of the teachings in original A certain, on the pulpit much tongue manufacturer Franziskaner applies the quantity against the Lutheraner, goads her on to force and pushes her to Mordtat. Nearly it was added Karfreitag, 500 men armed with steel-pipes broke in like mad ones into the church. Nostradamus was called as Lutheraner. Nearly all other suspected ones fled. Which concerns me, I fled by this violent rage frightened to Avignon.

The letter originated from the year 1561, one could however assume that already existed at the time of its citation before the Inquisition (thus approx. 1538) sympathies for the Protestant or reforming thing, which would have been groundless suspecting thus not.

In the next five years it is to have traveled by the Elsass, Lorraine, Germany and in Italy and have returned 1541 again in Provence. Its stays are not to be occupied however. 1544 he worked as a plague physician in Marseille, starting from at the end of of May 1546 in Aix, salon and 1547 briefly also in Lyon.

Permanence

In the year 1547 its father died, and in the same year he married the Saloner widow Anne Ponsarde, born Arnaud (also Ponce Gemelle and/or Pontia Gemella according to grave inscription) on 26 November, in derem house it from now on lived. Since its wife was wealthy, he could predominantly dedicate himself in the following years to his literary work. From this marriage 3 sons and 3 daughters followed: Larva line, * 1551; * 1553; Charles, * 1556; * 1557; Anne, *1558; DIANE, *1561.

It does not seem to have been limited to draw an income from Horoskopen and the publication from prophecies to to verzehren and/or the fortune of its wife. Rather he seems to have taken part with substantial success in economic enterprises and speculations. In particular its participation in the building of the channel between and Durance is provable by Adam de Craponne, who was begun August 1554 and April 1559 was completed. According to its will its cash asset amounted to at the time of death 3444 crowns and 10 Sous (in addition 1600 crowns came in certificates of indebtedness). Therefore Nostradamus was for the time a quite wealthy man.

To its prophecies it owed a meeting with the French king Heinrich II. and its wife Katharina of Medici in the year 1555. The stay with yard seemed not very successfully too run first, because the king was not particularly interested in prophecies. Nostradamus was troubled by money problems, which him forced to take from the famous scholar Jean Morel a loan. In addition a first accumulation of the charge, which became in the following years chronic suffering, troubled it.

The queen however, who far more than her husband was interested in the Okkulten generally and in Nostradamus in the special, invited it to provide Horoskope for their children. In the year 1564 Nostradamus was appointed on the occasion of an attendance of the new king Karl IX. and its nut/mother Katharina in salon the body physician of the king.

At the night of the 1. on 2 July 1566 Nostradamus died with 62 years at water craze, probably a consequence for many years of the chronic charge, which led to kidney failure. He was buried in the Minoritenkirche Saint de salon. In confusions of the French revolution its grave was violated 1791 by Nationalgardisten from Marseille and the bones absent-minded. On this occasion one of the soldiers is to have used Nostradamus' head as Trinkschale. Whether it thereby any prophetischen gifts assign became, is not delivered. Finally the remainders of the mortal remnants in a side chapel of the Dominikanerkirche Saint Laurent de salon were again bestattet.

His Mrs. Anne outlived it by 18 years, it died 1584. The trace of the family loses itself then in 17. Century.

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