Balthasar Mentzer III

Balthasar Mentzer III. (* February 21, 1651 in Rinteln ; † March 8, 1727 in Hamburg ) was a mathematics professor in Gießen and Hamburg. His grandfather and father , both Lutheran theologians, also had the name Balthasar Mentzer.

Life

Mentzer was born in Rinteln in 1651, where his father was a professor of theology. He studied in Gießen from 1668 and passed his master's degree there in 1672 . During his studies he accompanied his father on a six-month trip to Stockholm in 1670. He later continued his studies in Leipzig , Jena and Wittenberg . In 1674 Mentzer was appointed to a professorship in mathematics in Giessen, but first made another trip that took him to Holland, Belgium and England. He did not take up this professorship until 1676. In 1681 he was rector of the university. In 1695 he gave up his position because he did not want to sign an edict from his sovereign on theological disputes and instead moved to Hamburg at the Academic Gymnasium , also as a professor of mathematics. He held this office until his death in 1727.

Mentzer wrote a number of writings on mathematical and scientific topics and published some of the writings of his predecessor Johann Adolf Tassius .

Mentzer was married to Elenora Catharina Müller, the daughter of the pastor of Kirchenwerder Jacob Müller (born January 31, 1621, † March 8, 1676) and his wife Theta Catharina Hanneken. From the marriage comes the son Balthasar Mentzer IV , a Lutheran theologian and pastor in London .

Works (selection)

• Kurtze Description of the terrifying comets / so in the month of Decembr. deß Published 1680th year , Franckfurt, 1680.
• M. Balthasaris Mentzeri, Matheseos, in Alma Ludoviciana, Professoris Publici, Compendium Geographicum , Gießen, Müller, 1685.
• Pre-work and shadow-crack of some mathematical sciences , Hammonsburg, Neumann, 1696.
• (Ed.) Johannis Adolfi Tassii ... Opuscula Mathematica Hamburg, Love Period , 1699.
• Newly invented Antlia Pneumatica or Lufft tube Sampt their Lustigen Würckungen , Hamburg: Neumann, 1707.
• Astronomical shadow crack and exact description of the on April 22, 1715 , Hamburg, [approx. 1715].
• Kurtzer draft of the very unusual and in many places, both in the month of Martio, as well as in those last-vanished healing. Easter days of bright light perceived here , Hamburg, Greflinger, [1716].

literature

• lu:  Mentzer, Balthasar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 374 f.
• Hans Schröder, Carl R. Wilhelm Klose: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present. Hamburg, 1870, Vol. 5, pp. 204-207

Web link

• Stars over Hamburg