Andreas Stiborius

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Andreas Stiborius ( Boius ) actually Andreas Stöberl (* around 1464 in Pleiskirchen near Altötting ; † September 3, 1515 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian.

Life

Stiborius studied from 1479 in Ingolstadt , where he received his master's degree in 1484. From 1497 he worked in Vienna, where he was prior of the Herzogskolleg . He belonged to the Danube Society founded by Conrad Celtis , a group of humanistic scholars. In 1502 he received, along with Johannes Stabius , one of the two newly established mathematical chairs at the Collegium poetarum et mathematicorum .

With Georg Tannstetter he was involved in efforts to reform the calendar . Together they wrote a report that Maximilians I requested from the University of Vienna - at the request of Pope Leo X. In this report, which was completed at the end of 1514 and printed soon afterwards, they suggested that one leap day should be omitted every 134 days. Stiborius wrote two prefaces for an edition of astronomical tables ( Tabulae Eclypsium ... , Vienna 1514). The editor, however, was Georg Tannstetter, not - as repeatedly erroneously stated in the specialist literature - Stiborius. In 1514, Tannstetter dedicates a long section to his - then still living - teacher in his description of the Viennese mathematician and astronomer Viri Mathematici . First, Tannstetter names the titles of 16 scientific works written by Stiborius - a remarkable number, especially in view of the fact that only a few printed books by Stiborius have survived. He then lists all of the books in Stiborius' possession - some of them handwritten - and thus gives an impression of a scholarly library at the time. The books are listed thematically: more than 20 books on astronomy, about 10 each on perspective, geometry and arithmetic, and about 5 each on metaphysics and magic.

Stiborius became canon in St. Stephan in 1503 . Until his death in 1515 he was pastor in Stockerau (near Vienna), where he was buried.

The lunar crater Stiborius is named after him.

Works

  • (Editor :) Robert Grosseteste : Libellus Linconiensis de physicis lineis, angulis et figuris . Nuremberg 1503 for digitization
  • Super requisitione S. Leonis PX and D. Maximiliani Imp.… De romani Calendarii correctione consilium . Vienna, probably 1515

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  • “Vienna Artist Register” 1497 to 1555 , Archive of the University of Vienna, Vienna 2007, PDF

literature

  • Joseph Aschbach : History of the University of Vienna , Vol. 2: The University of Vienna and the humanists in the age of Emperor Maximilian I. Vienna 1877, pp. 374–376.
  • Helmuth Grössing: Stiborius, Andreas . In: Killy Literaturlexikon, 1993, Vol. 11, p. 196.
  • Siegmund Günther :  Stiborius, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 162 f.
  • Anton Maria Kobolt : Bavarian Scholar Lexicon. Landshut 1795, p. 669 ff.
  • Christoph Schöner: Mathematics and astronomy at the University of Ingolstadt in the 15th and 16th centuries , Ludovico Maximilianea. Research; Vol. 13, Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1994. ISBN 3-428-08118-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bauch, Gustav: The beginnings of humanism in Ingolstadt , Verlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich and Leipzig, 1901, p. 106f .; gives the Munich University Archives, OI, Fasc as a source for Stöberl's place of birth. 2, year 1484.
  2. ↑ The Rhenish Nations Register says: “Mag. Andreas Stiborius Canon. Vienn. et plebanus in Stockerau, famigeratus Mathematicus, profundus theologus, vir multigenae eruditionis, obiit Viennae 3. the Sept. anno 1515 et sepultus in Stockerau. “Quoted from Aschbach: Geschichte der Wiener Universität , Vol. 2, 1877, p. 376.
  3. ^ After Boehm: Stiborius, Andreas . In: Walther Killy: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 9, 1998, Stiborius was already from 1489 to 1496 head of the so-called Lilienburse , a Vienna scholarship foundation for scholars from Württemberg and Swabia.
  4. ↑ This can be found in the history report written by Tannstetter: "Viri Mathematici".
  5. ↑ See Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : Humanism Between Court and University. Georg Tannstetter (Collimitius) and his scientific environment in Vienna in the early 16th century . Vienna 1996, pp. 125–128.
  6. ^ The eclipse tables by Georg von Peuerbach and the tables "primi mobilis" by Regiomontanus .
  7. ^ Justification for the attribution to Tannstetter in Graf-Stuhlhofer: Humanism between court and university . 1996, pp. 91-93 and Fig. 14.
  8. ↑ Latin original and German translation by Graf-Stuhlhofer: Humanism between court and university . 1996, pp. 156-171, on Stiborius pp. 166-168.
personal data
SURNAME Stiborius, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stöberl, Andreas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1464
PLACE OF BIRTH Pleiskirchen near Altötting
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1515
Place of death Vienna