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NostradamusBiography The following is a biography of Michel de Nostredame, it is a excerpt from Erika Cheetham, The Prophecies of Nostradamus. ChildhoodMichel de Nostradame, more ordinarily known as Nostradamus, was born on 14th December 1503, in St. Remy de Provence. His parents were of simple lineage from around Avignon. Nostradamus was the oldest son, and had four brothers of the first three we know littler the youngest, Jean, became Procureur of the Parliament of the Provence. EducationNostradamus great intellect became apparent while he was still very young, and his education was put into the hands of his grandfather, Jean, who taught him the rudiments of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Mathematics and Astrology. When his grandfather died, Nostradamus was sent to Avignon to study. He already showed a great interest in astrology and it became common talk among his fellow students. He upheld the Copernican theory that the introduction was round and circled around the sun more than 100 years before Galileo was prosecuted for the same belief. ConversionSince it was the age of the Inquisition and the family were converted from Judaism to the Catholic faith by the time Nostradamus was nine years old, his parents were quite worried, because as ex-Jews they were more vulnerable than most. So they sent him of to study medicine at Montpellier in 1522. Nostradamus obtained his bachelors degree later on three years, with apparent ease, and once he had his license to practise medicine he decided to go out into the countryside and help the many victims of the plague. After or so four years he returned to Montpellier to complete his doctorate and re-enrolled on 23rd October 1529. Nostradamus had some trouble in explaining his unorthodox remedies and treatments he used in the countryside. tho his learning and ability could not be denied and he obtained his doctorate. He remained teaching at Montpellier for a year but by this time his new theories, for exemplification his r efusal to bleed patients, were causing trouble and he set off upon another spate of wandering. MarriedWhile practising in Toulouse he received a earn from Julius-Cesar Scaliger, the philosopher considered second only to Erasmus throughout Europe. Apparently Nostradamus reply so pleased Scaliger that he invited him to stay at his home in Agen. This life suited Nostradamu... ...avelling she came to salon and visited Nostradamus. They dined and Catherine gave Nostradamus the title of Physician in Ordinary, which carried with it a salary and other benefits. WillBut by now the gout from which Nostradamus suffered was turning to dropsy and he, the doctor, realized that his polish off was near. He made his will on 17th June 1566 and left the large sum, for those days, of 3444 crowns over and above his other possessions. On 1st July he sent for the local anesthetic priest to give him the last rites, and when Chavigny took leave of him that night, he told him that he would not see him al ive again. As he himself had predicted, his body was found the next morning. warehousingHe was burried upright in one of the walls of the Church of the Cordeliers at Salon, and his wife Anne erected a splendid marble plaque to his memory. Nostradamus grave was opened by irrational soldiers during the Revolution but his remains were reburied in the other church at Salon, the Church of St. Laurent, where his grave and portrait can still be seen. BibliographyThe following is a biography of Michel de Nostredame, it is a excerpt from Erika Cheetham, The Prophecies of Nostradamus.