Christoph Bernhard von Galen

Christoph Bernhard Freiherr von Galen (12 October 1606, Drensteinfurt – 19 September 1678) was prince-bishop of Münster. He was born into a noble Westphalian family.

Background, education and conversion to Roman Catholicism

Christoph Bernhard von Galen was a child of Lutheran Protestant parents of the noble family of the Von Galen and was born on October 12, 1606. His father, Dietrich von Galen, had goods in Baltic and bore the title of Marshal of Courland. During a state assembly in Münster, Dietrich von Galen killed the Munster hereditary marshal Gerd Morrien to Nordkirchen on 15 February 1607, and consequently had to spend twelve years in detention at Burg Bevergern. Because his wife accompanied him voluntarily, the young Christoph Bernhard in 1616 was placed under the care of his uncle, the canon of Münster's Heinrich von Galen. He gave him a Catholic education Jesuits at Paulinum Catholic education in Münsterr.

At age 13, he got his first job and in 1619 he became a Cathedral chapter in Münster. When he reached the required age, he moved to Cologne and Mainz, to complete his education at a Jesuit school in 1626. An educational trip took him to Bourges and Bordeaux in France, from where he returned to Münster in July 1627. The time of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) coined it. In 1630 he was Treasurer of the cathedral and in 1634 chaplain advice. There was at that time not many canon political activists. Galen took many diplomatic missions. He repeatedly took part in negotiations with the imperial generals in part of Westphalia.

Galen

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (/ɡəˈliːnəs/;Greek: Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 AD – c. 200/c. 216), often Anglicized as Galen and better known as Galen of Pergamon (/ˈɡeɪlən/), was a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman empire. Arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy,physiology, pathology,pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic.

The son of Aelius Nicon, a wealthy architect with scholarly interests, Galen received a comprehensive education that prepared him for a successful career as a physician and philosopher. Born in Pergamon (present-day Bergama, Turkey), Galen traveled extensively, exposing himself to a wide variety of medical theories and discoveries before settling in Rome, where he served prominent members of Roman society and eventually was given the position of personal physician to several emperors.

Galen (crater)

Galen is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged region between the Montes Apenninus range to the west and the Montes Haemus in the east. It is located to the south-southeast of the crater Aratus, a slightly larger formation. Further to the west is the crater Conon, near the flanks of the Montes Apeninnus. Galen was previously designated Aratus A before being given a name by the IAU.

Galen is a circular crater with a bowl-shaped interior and a sharp rim that has not undergone significant erosion. The small interior floor has a lower albedo than the surrounding walls.

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Galen (disambiguation)

Galen was an ancient Roman physician of Greek origin.

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