Caspar Schwartz

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Self-inscription on title page: M. CASPARUM Schwartzen / Strals.Pom.

Caspar Schwartz , also Schwartze, Schwartzius , (* around 1595 in Stettin (Pomerania, today Szczecin in Poland); † September 16, 1649 in Jördenstorf near Teterow) was a German theologian , pedagogue , physician , mathematician and calendar maker .

Life

Caspar Schwartz stated on the front pages of his calendars that he came from Stralsund, but he was born in Stettin. He spent his childhood in Stralsund, because his father was a lawyer there (lawyer).

Schwartz studied in Gdansk, Königsberg and Greifswald . The registers of the Universities of Greifswald and Rostock provide further details about his education, naming and origin. His matriculation at the University of Greifswald in 1614 took place as "Casparus Schvarte, Sundensis". C. Schwartz emerged in Greifswald with three academic papers (dissertations from 1619, 1620, 1621). His doctorate in Greifswald took place in 1620 with the dissertation De globi coelestis fabrica et usu .

Schwartz, who studied medicine, theology, mathematics (and thus also astronomy), obtained his master's degree as “M. Casparem Swartzen, Stralsundensem, pastorem Iordenstorpiensem, Gryphiswaldiae promotum ”.

Before he took over the office of pastor in the Jördenstorf village church in 1632 (a small town in the Malchin superintendent in what was then the Principality of Mecklenburg), he had been vice rector of a school in Demmin from 1623 and doctor and rector in Malchin from 1629.

Schwartz spent some time in Rostock as a result of the devastation of his community Jördenstorf (during the Thirty Years' War). He achieved a high reputation in the Baltic Sea city as a plague medicus and was valued by "Duke Hans Albrecht as a medicus". Christoph Schwartz retired as pastor in Jördenstorf in 1647 and died soon after in 1649.

calendar

Schwartz began writing calendars in 1622 when he wrote a calendar for the year 1623, because in the preface of his Postreuter ... for 1646 he wrote of himself, "that I have now given Calender and Prognostica to Liecht in the 24th year" . The places of printing proven by the few surviving copies are Rostock, Stettin, Greifswald and Stockholm. Caspar Schwartz had made the “writing calendar” in Quart for 22 years as an “old and new” calendar, before he directed it to Danzig in the 23rd year (1646) and placed the new Gregorian calendar in front (writing calendar for 1646 for Danzig). Although this calendar was calculated for Gdansk, the title page shows the city of Rostock. Caspar Schwartz belonged to a group of pastors who all came from or worked in the Demmin area and who published writing calendars in the first half of the 17th century. His calendars were widespread and their calculations and weather information were still popular over 100 years after his death.

family

Wedding wishes for the daughter of M. CASPARI Schwartzen

The son Joachim, who was enrolled at Greifswald University in September 1647, emerged from the marriage with Margareta Brandeburg. Elsewhere it is said that he was married to Margarete Kittendorf, the daughter of the mayor and later mayor of Demmin . From this marriage a son and three daughters are said to have emerged. The son Georg (* around 1730 in Demmin) became the pastor of Kirch Kogel. There were printed wedding wishes for the marriage of his daughter Margarete in 1658 to Joachim Duncker, pastor in Belitz. The daughter Barbara married Andreas Rosenow (from Sternberg) in 1647, who after Schwartz's retirement took over his pastor's position in the Jördenstorf village church . A daughter from their marriage, Maria Rosenow, married Caspar Mantzel. A son from this marriage and thus the great-grandson of Caspar Schwartz was Ernst Johann Friedrich Mantzel the Elder . Ä. (1699–1768), lawyer and professor at the Universities of Rostock and Bützow. One of his nephews was Christian Gottfried Mantzel (whose father was Johann Mantzel ), who held two calendars by Caspar Schwartz (the writing calendar for 1647 and an Allmanach for 1651) and described both of them in an essay in 1791. He had received these two calendars from Delbrügk, Pastor zu Stuer, another grandson of Caspar Schwartz.

Fonts (selection)

  • Johannes Trygophorus (Praeses), Caspar Schwartz (Resp.): De justitia universali et particularis, talione, jure, et aequitate . In: Johannes Trygophorus: Exercitationes ethicae ex Aristotelis ad Nicomachum ethicis . Greifswald 1619, pp. 141–168. Greifswal University Library, 536 / Disp. phil. 59.6.
  • Laurentius Ludenius (President), Caspar Schwartz (Resp.): De globi coelestis fabrica et usu . Greifswald 1620. Greifswald UB, 536 / Disp. phil. 47.3a.
  • Laurentius Ludenius (President), Caspar Schwartz (Resp.): De anima. Greifswald 1621 . Greifswald University Library, 536 / Disp. phil. 47.6.
  • Meditationes Sacrae Or Christian Thoughts And Explanations Of The Gospel Of The Ship Type Of Christ / His Disciples / And All Pious Christians / So In The Impetuous Sea Of This Last World / Have To Sail / Along With Memories Of What Luck They Have To Expect With Such Ship Type . Rostock 1641. Rostock University Library, Fc-1430. ( online )
  • Postreuter. Bona Meliora Nova, That is: Besser Gute Newe Zeitung / Not out of enthusiastic ideas / but out of true astronomical calculations / and the following Judicio, also not according to Heydnian evaporated customs / but as far as it is due to a Christian Mathematico / excluded / continued from all superstitions and produced on the year M DC XXXXVI. Instead of the Complementi Prognostici . Rostock [1646?]. Rostock University Library, LB V 213. ( online )

calendar

  • Writing calendar (directed towards the Mecklenburg horizon) , format 4 °. 1624–1638: David Rhete, Stettin, 1639–1652: Nikolaus Keil, Rostock.
  • Writing calendar (facing the Gdańsk horizon) , format 4 °. 1646- ?: Nikolaus Keil, Rostock
  • Calendarium or Allmanach , format 16 °. 1623–1652: Nikolaus Keil, Rostock
  • Small writing calendar , format 12 °. Around 1643: Nikolaus Keil, Rostock
  • Calendarium, or almanac and small Prognosticon , format 12 °. Around 1629: Hans Witte, Greifswald.

literature

  • Ernst Johann Friedrich Mantzel : Bützow's hours of rest , Bützow 1764, Part 12, p. 69
  • Christian Gottfried Mantzel: Schwarten sien Kalenders , in: monthly from and for Mecklenburg , Schwerin 1791, column 279–292; ( digital )
  • Schwartz, Caspar . In: Klaus-Dieter Herbst: Biobibliographisches Handbuch der Kalendermacher from 1550 to 1750 . ( online )
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. 1. Volume, Wismar 1925, p. 559 ( online ).
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9265 . ( digital )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willgeroth, p. 559
  2. ↑ Mantzel, 1791, col. 281
  3. ↑ Friedländer, 1893, Vol. 1, p. 418
  4. ↑ Note in the register of Rostock University, Hofmeister, 1889, vol. 3, p. 113, cf. P. 112 and Schäfer, 1919, vol. 2, p. 213
  5. ↑ Mantzel, 1764, p. 69; Mantzel, 1791, col. 281; Willgeroth, 1924, Vol. 1, p. 559
  6. ↑ Mantzel, 1764, p. 69
  7. ↑ Mantzel, 1764, p. 69
  8. ↑ Willgeroth, p. 559
  9. ↑ Friedländer, 1893, vol. 2, p. 12, here also the reference to both parents
  10. ↑ Willgeroth, 1924, Vol. 1, p. 559
  11. ↑ here he is referred to as: “M. CASPARI SCHWARTZEN, well-known mathematician and devoted preacher to Jördenstorff "
  12. ↑ Mantzel 1764, p. 69 and Willgeroth, 1924, Vol. 1, p. 560
  13. ↑ Mantzel 1791: Schwarten sien calendar
  14. ↑ Herbst, Klaus-Dieter: Biobibliographisches Handbuch der Kalendermacher from 1550 to 1750
personal data
SURNAME Schwartz, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartzius, Caspar; Schwartze, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, pedagogue, physician, mathematician and calendar maker
DATE OF BIRTH around 1595
PLACE OF BIRTH Stettin (Pomerania, today Szczecin in Poland)
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1647
Place of death Jördenstorf near Teterow