Abdias Trew

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Abdias Trew (also: Treu ; born July 29, 1597 in Ansbach ; † April 12, 1669 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ) was a German Protestant theologian , mathematician , astronomer and astrologer .

Life

Born as the son of Michael Trew (1563-1620) and his wife Ottilia, the daughter of Magnus Gallus (1534-1575), the young Trew moved with his family to Heilsbronn . There his father had become principal of the grammar school and paid attention to the education of his children. Trew first attended the city school in 1603, moved to the local grammar school in 1607 and moved to the University of Wittenberg on October 24, 1618 . Here he devoted himself to studying at the philosophical faculty. In poetics he heard August Buchner and logic from Jakob Martini and was particularly drawn to studying mathematics, where he found excellent teachers in Erasmus Schmidt and Ambrosius Rhode . Occasionally he attended lectures at the theological faculty.

On March 20, 1621, he quickly achieved the degree of master's degree and initially pursued a theological career. He worked in Heidenheim an der Brenz , then from 1622 to 1624 as vicar and deacon in Markt Erlbach and in 1625 took over the rectorate of the Ansbach Latin School . During the hardship of the Thirty Years' War , he tried to get a chair at the University of Altdorf . He received this in 1636 in the form of a professorship in mathematics . In 1650 he was also given a teaching position on physical natural philosophy. His professorship was also linked to the supervision of the Nuremberg scholarship holders, where he became calendar writer in 1654, succeeding Andreas Goldmayer .

He was rector of the Altdorf University and dean of the philosophical faculty several times. In 1657 he initiated the establishment of an observatory on the north tower of the Altdorf city wall and tried to implement his early enlightenment reform ideas. His literary activity was extensive and ramified, he wrote many textbooks and daily writings in German prose. He was a follower of Tycho Brahe's worldview and represented a reformed astrology in the sense of Kepler .

Trew was married twice. On May 6, 1623 he married the pastor's daughter Barbara Weselius († 1634). His second marriage was on January 26th with Maria Ursula, the daughter of the Ansbach chamberlain, Sebastian Geyer. His first marriages had seven sons and three daughters, only one of whom survived him. In the second marriage he was just as unhappy with happiness. Of the nine sons and two daughters, only five sons and one daughter survived. Well-known grandchildren were the natural scientist Christoph Jacob Trew and the composer Daniel Gottlieb Treu .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ianitor lycaei musici , Rothenburg ob der Tauber 1635
  • Manuale geometriae practicae . Geometry handbook, Nuremberg 1636
  • Geodaesia Universalis , Nuremberg 1641
  • Discurs From Reason and Improvement of Astrologiae , Nuremberg 1643
  • Physica Aristotelica , Nuremberg 1656
  • Compendium compendiorum astronomiae & astrologiae , Altdorf 1660
  • Thorough calendar art , Lüneburg 1666
  • Thorough […] Astrologia u. Calendar art , without location 1666
  • Practica Universalis in recommendation of bloodletting , without place and year (mathematical, physical, astronomical, music-theoretical and medical disputation collection)

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SURNAME Trew, Abdias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abdias Faithful
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, mathematician and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1597
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1669
Place of death Altdorf near Nuremberg