Kotermak Yuriy Mikhailovich [Yuriy(Georgy) Donatovich Drohobych] General data:
1450 - 04.07.1494
Place of birth: Drohobych city, Russian Voivodship, Kingdom of Poland (now Lviv region, Ukraine)
Studied in: Krakow University, Polish Kingdom (since the XIX century Jagiellonian University, Krakow city) (1469-1473); Bologna University, Holy Roman Empire (since 1946 Bologna University, Emilia Romagna region, Italian Republic) (1473-1476); Bologna University, Holy Roman Empire (since 1946 Bologna University, Emilia Romagna region, Italian Republic) (1482);
ScD Thesis: doctoral "free arts" (1476 Bologna University); ScD Thesis: Doctor of Medicine (1482 Bologna University);
Biography:
He was born about 1450, in the Drohobych city Russian Voivodship of the Kingdom of Poland (now the Lviv region of Ukraine) in the family of a bourgeois Michael Donat Kotermak, who was a saltman by profession.
He received the first education from the priest of the church of St. George Euthymius. At the same time he received the first knowledge about the calculation of the Paschal and basic knowledge of Latin.
In 16 years after the death of his father, he went to Lviv city, where he was hired by a scribe to the Lviv office of Mr. Aynolf. Here, a capable student also mastered the Polish and German languages. In Lviv, Yuri had the opportunity to study at the cathedral school, but his dream was a university.
At the end of 1468 or early 1469, he entered the Krakow University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1470 and a master's degree in 1473. In 1476 (according to other sources, in 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Bologna University, Having received a doctor's degree and then, for five years, lectured on astronomy.And in 1482 he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Bologna University,, where he entered in 1473,
becoming the first doctor of medical sciences, who came from the territory of modern Ukraine, and began to teach medicine as well. he entered under the name "Giorgio da Leopoli" - Yuri from Lviv
In 1481-1482 he was the rector of the Bologna University. The scientist prepared a schedule of lectures with professors, filled vacancies, established the procedure for remuneration of professors, supervised their work, organized disputes, had the right of criminal jurisdiction over all those who were in service or studied at the university.
In 1487 he became a professor of medicine at Krakow University. I had the rank of royal physician at the court of Kazimierz Yagellonchik.
Teaching activity of Yuri Drohobych was aimed at spreading humanistic ideas of the Renaissance.
Died July 4, 1494 in Krakow, Poland.
"Iudicium prognosticon Anni MCCCCLXXX III - Prognostic Assessment of the Current 1483" ("Judith of the Master's Master of Georgiy Drohobych of Rosy") - an astrological calendar in which, based on the interpretation of the mutual arrangement of the stars and the assessment of various heavenly events, earthly events were foreseen, is his first print work . The publication contains scientific data on astronomy and geography: it listed the days, hours and minutes of the main phases of the Moon throughout the year, with the accuracy of several hours indicating the time of two lunar eclipses, determining the geographical coordinates of the cities of Lviv, Drohobych, Kafi (Feodosia), Vilna, Moscow, and others. There are only two copies of this work. In addition, he is the first Ukrainian author of a printed work (in Latin).
In the libraries of Paris, copies of the two astrological treatises of Yuri Drohobych were preserved, and in the Bavarian State Library in Munich - his forecast for 1478, rewritten by the German humanist G. Schödel.
Among his students was the forthcoming eminent astronomer Mykola Kopernik.
Main publications:
1. Котермак Ю. М. «Прогностична оцінка поточного 1483 року магістра Юрія Дрогобича з Руси, доктора філософії і медицини Болонського університету».- Рим, дукарня Евхаріуса Зільбера, 1483
2. Котермак Ю. М. Юдіція праностіки Магістра Георгія Дрогобича з Роси- Рим, 1483
3. СУЖДЕНИЕ О ЗАТМЕНИЯХ /Доктор медицины Георгий из Руси
4. ПРОГНОСТИЧНЕ СУДЖЕННЯ ПРО 1478 РІК/Магістр Георгіус з Русі
Sources:
1 Аксіоми для нащадків: українські імена у світовій науці / За ред. О. К. Романчука. — Львів: Меморіал, 1992.—544 с.
2 Артеменко Т. Г. Витоки астрономічної освіти і науки в Україні (ХV — XVIII століття) // Нові обрії: Наук. праці ін. фундам. досліджень.—2007.—Вип. 11.—С.105—111.
3 ru.wikipedia.org
4 Літнарович Р.М. Українські астрономи. За матеріалами Вікіпедії станом на 10.06.2012 р. Рівне, 2012.-258 с.-С.95-103
