Bernhard Cantzler

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Bernhard Cantzler (* around 1566 probably in Jagsthausen ; † in the 17th century) was a German cartographer and hospital master.

Life

Bernhard was born the son of Johann Cantzler, pastor and bailiff of Berlichingen in Jagsthausen, and Anna Lederer. The father came from Miltenberg . Bernhard was first mentioned as a godfather in Jagsthausen in 1581.

In 1583 he was enrolled in Heidelberg ; a year later he wrote a poem to his friend Andreas Raselius in Heidelberg. Before 1587 he was the preceptor of the sons of HR von Berlichingen.

He married Ursula around 1592 and worked in Aub in Franconia . In the years 1594 to 1597 it was the aristocratic governor in Wachbach . Then until 1605 he was the hospital master in Wertheim , where the mighty south wing of the hospital was built in 1603 according to his ideas. Then began his activity in the county of Erbach .

Bernhard Cantzler and Count Friedrich Magnus must have had a love for mathematics and the sciences related to it, because in the foreword to his survey booklet Cantzler wrote in 1622: “But it has sometimes ... / Mr. Friderich Magnus ... gave me little guidance on this: To the extent the same as a but lover and understanding of the mathematical arts / of all field metrics, error very displeased: and such booklet's publication gladly seen promoted "

Scientific achievements

Comitatus Wertheimici by Bernhard Cantzler

During his activity he created some maps, such as the Wertheim County Map in 1617; Measurements in Waldeck are documented in 1620 and in 1628 he created the Erbach county map. With the publication of the little book Vom Feldmässen in 1622 he created the handbook of cartographers for two centuries.

Works

  • From field measurements: Brief and thorough report / how one measures all sorts of fields out of the right geometrical reason: to divide them into equal or different parts: also to do the calculation in a peculiarly easy way; Darbey also the errors ... in the common and found fields ... are discovered . Printed at Nuremberg / by Simon Halbmayern, 1622
  • Erbacher county map from 1628 . Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden - SLUB / KS A 6786; www.deutschefotothek.de, search: df_dk_0006698

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidi Banse: Odenwald Forum - Ten lectures on family history . Michelstadt, Homeland and History Association Lützelbach 2013; P. 223ff.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Cantzler: Vom Feldmässen - Kurtzer and thorough report / how to measure all sorts of fields out of the right geometrical reason: divide into equal or unequal parts: the calculation should also be done in a peculiarly easy way; Darbey also the errors ... in the common and found fields ... are discovered : Printed in Nuremberg / by Simon Halbmayern, 1622, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel , call number 40.6 Geometrica
  3. ↑ Heidi Banse: Odenwald Forum - Ten lectures on family history . Michelstadt, Homeland and History Association Lützelbach 2013; P. 223ff.
personal data
SURNAME Cantzler, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cantzler, Bernhardus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century