Background
He was born in the County of Mömpelgard, then part of the Duchy of Württemberg.
philosopher theologian university professor
He was born in the County of Mömpelgard, then part of the Duchy of Württemberg.
With support from Duke Georg I. of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, he read theology at University of Tübingen and medicine at the University of Basel, where he lectured on physical science. He subsequently became professor of medicine at the University of Altdorf. There he died in 1606 from the plague, despite treatment by Ernst Soner.
He attacked the dominant Aristotelianism of the time, and endeavoured to construct a philosophy which should harmonize faith and knowledge, and bridge over the chasm made by the first Renaissance writers who followed Pomponazzi.
His chief works were Philosophiae Triumphus (1573). Synopsis Melaphysicae Aristolelis (1596).
De Rerum Aeternitate (1604). And a treatise written in criticism of Caesalpinus entitled Caesae Alpes (1597).
See Schmid-Schwarzenburg, Nicolaus Taurellus (1860 and 1864).
Scholasticism he condemned on account of its unquestioning submission to Aristotle.