Albrecht Linemann

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Albrecht Linemann (born March 11, 1603 in Fischhausen in East Prussia , today Primorsk , Russia ; † December 8, 1653 in Koenigsberg , today Kaliningrad , Russia) was a German mathematician and astronomer. In the summer semesters 1642 and 1650 as well as in the winter semester 1650/51 he acted as rector of the University of Königsberg .

Life

Linemann was born the son of a shoemaker and church leader and was originally supposed to learn a trade. When the family found out that the son wanted to study, they allowed him to go to Koenigsberg.

He attended the cathedral school there and was able to secure his living with odd jobs. During this time he acquired an extensive basic philological knowledge. He began studying Protestant theology at the University of Königsberg . According to the study regulations, this included studies at the philosophical faculty. He denied on March 30, 1629 under Levin Pouchenius the theological disputation De promissione facta Achazo Esa. VII. 14 as a respondent .

He also studied mathematics. He qualified through direct contact with his teacher, the Königsberg professor Johann Strauss , and after his death in 1630 he was offered a full professorship in mathematics.

However, Linemann previously undertook a three-year trip to the Netherlands , to what was then the center of mathematical research. There he drew attention to himself with a public disputation De scintillatione stellarum . It earned him the recognition of the Dutch scholars. After three years he returned to Koenigsberg, where on April 20, 1634 he acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy. In the same year he became professor of mathematics in Königsberg. He also taught the German language.

Linemann left an unprinted treatise on the field masses , published calendars with annotations from 1634 to 1654, which his widow under the somewhat cumbersome title Deliciae Calendario-graphicae, that is the most ingenious and very artificial questions and answers, including the noblest secrets of physics, astronomy, Astrology, geography, etc., to the best of the scholars and the unlearned, are gracefully and comprehensibly explained and adopted for the best, from the annual calendar work of the once well-known and well-known Hn. M. Alb. Linemanni Fischerhusio Borussi mathemarum professoris publici at the laudable Königsberg Academy for the art-loving reader for the delightful use (Königsberg 1657) , published.

From the calendars mentioned, it emerges, among other things, that he was an opponent of the gullible followers of Aristotle . Instead, he propagated the worldview of Nicolaus Copernicus . After his death Valentin Thilo and Simon Dach dedicated a written souvenir to him.

A daughter comes from his marriage to Anna Gericke, but she died young.

Works

  • Disputationem inauguralem mathematicam: de refractionibus uranicis. Koenigsberg 1634
  • Disp. mathematicam theorematicam adstruentem, mortum diurnum telluri vindicandum esse. Koenigsberg 1635
  • Disp. ordinarim continentem controversias physico-mathematicas. Koenigsberg 1636
  • Disp. primam de natura cometarum aethereorum. Koenigsberg 1636
  • secundam. 1636
  • Disp. de mundo. 1637
  • Disp. theorematicam inquirentem in irdis seu arcus coelestis naturam. 1637
  • Disp. de rerum naturalium primordiis. 1638
  • Disp. de visionis natura. 1642
  • Disp. putationem psychologicam, juxta sententiam methodumque Aristotelis… sive, universaliter de omni parte animae disquirentem. 1642
  • Disp. de mathematicarum disciplinarum natura. 1642
  • Positionis opticas. 1643
  • Disp. physico-astronomicam de sole. 1645
  • Disp. de veritate fati astrologici 1647
  • Exercitationem physico-opticam de iride. 1649
  • Disp. optico-physicam, de visionis modo. 1649
  • Mathematicarum assertionum pentadem priorem. 1649
  • Mathematicarum assertionum pentadem posteriorem. 1650
  • Disp. physico-astronomicam de luna. 1650
  • Disp. physicam de igne elementari. 1651
  • Tractatus Manduductio ad fortificationem belgicam.

literature

  • Friedrich Johann Buck: Biographies of the deceased mathematicians in general and of the great Prussian mathematician P. Christian Otters, who died more than a hundred years ago, credibly promoted to print, especially in two departments. Hartung & Zeise, Königsberg and Leipzig, 1764, p. 66, ( online )
  • Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon. 1750, vol. 2,
  • J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1882, p. 198
  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, Part 2, p. 376, line 65
  • Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Verlag Hartung, Königsberg, 1886, 290 f., 438, 443 f.,
  • Linemannus, Alb .. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 17, Leipzig 1738, column 1417.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moscow, Russian State Library: Fund 943, No. 26. Cf. Daria Barow-Vassilevitch : The Königsberg City Library and its traces in Moscow , in: Of medieval and modern holdings in Russian libraries and archives , ed. by Natalija Ganina, Klaus Klein, Catherine Squires, Jürgen Wolf (German-Russian research on book history 3 = Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt. Special publications 47), Erfurt 2016, pp. 57–78, esp. p. 69.
personal data
SURNAME Linemann, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischhausen
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1653
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)