Caspar Schleupner

Caspar Schleupner (* 1535 in Nuremberg , † after 1598 in Breslau ) was a German arithmetic master .

Caspar Schleupner was born in 1535 as the son of pastor Dominikus Schleupner († 1547) and Margaretha Apel († 1540/41) in Nuremberg. After training with the famous typist and mathematician Johann Neudörffer the Elder , he left Nuremberg and in 1560 went to Neisse in Upper Silesia, where he worked as a German teacher. At the age of thirty-five he moved to Breslau, where he founded a school of writing and arithmetic and where he died after 1598.

In 1586 Schleupner published a commercial arithmetic book with the title Der Deutschen und Welschen, so wol der Welt Practica Invoice: Kurtzer und warhugtiger Weg, im kauf und Sellfen , in which he names Neudörffer as his teacher. Under the title Rechenbüchlein auf der Linien: Spoken wise posed appeared first in 1598 in Leipzig ( VD 16 S 2993), then in a second edition in 1599 in Breslau an arithmetic book that was repeatedly attributed to his teacher Neudörffer in the past. The claim that the book is a posthumous copy of a handwritten arithmetic book handed down by Neudörffer cannot be substantiated. Instead, the arithmetic booklet is probably an independent achievement by Schleupner, who in it refers several times to the arithmetic master Johann Seckerwitz (* around 1485 † before 1529) from Breslau.

literature

• Richard Hergenhahn: Johann Seckerwitz (around 1485 - before 1529) arithmetic master in Breslau; Caspar Schleupner (1535 - after 1598) German schoolmaster in Breslau. In: Rainer Gebhardt : Arithmetic books and mathematical texts of the early modern period (= writings of the Adam-Ries-Bund Annaberg-Buchholz. Vol. 11). Adam-Ries-Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz 1999, ISBN 3-930430-31-2 , pp. 67-86.
• Christoph von Imhoff (Hrsg.): Famous Nuremberg from nine centuries. 2nd, supplemented and expanded edition. Hofmann, Nürnberg 1989, ISBN 3-87191-088-0 , p. 120.
• Matthias Simon: Nuremberg pastors book. The Evangelical Lutheran clergy of the imperial city of Nuremberg and its area 1524–1806 (= individual works from the church history of Bavaria. Vol. 41, ZDB -ID 526005-x ). Association for Bavarian Church History, Nuremberg 1965, p. 198.