Caspar Thierfelder

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Caspar Thierfelder (* allegedly 1525 , † probably 1594 in Steyr ) was a German arithmetic master and calendar maker .

Life

Little is known about Thierfelder's life; he worked as arithmetic master in Freiberg in the middle of the 16th century . In 1564 Thierfelder published an arithmetic book together with another Freiberg arithmetic master, Oswald Ullmann, at Bärwald in Leipzig. A little later Thierfelder left the Saxon mountain town and went to Austria. As a reason for leaving, he named his lack of support due to the death of most of the students.

In March 1567 Thierfelder was appointed school and arithmetic master at Steyr . In addition to a fixed salary, the city granted him a free apartment and wood, as well as two rooms for keeping school. Many of his arithmetic tasks related to the sale of hardware from Steyr to Venice in a practical way. The last mention of Caspar Thierfelder dates from 1594, it is assumed that he died in this year.

Caspar Thierfelder had two sons who followed in their father's footsteps. Daniel and Basilius Thierfelder worked as schoolmasters and arithmetic masters in Upper Austria until the beginning of the 17th century. In 1594 Daniel Thierfelder made a clip-on calendar for Linhard Wasserbeck, a citizen of Linz. His descendants probably left Upper Austria after the Counter Reformation.

Publications

  • Oswald Ulmanns and Caspar Thierfelders Newes Kunst = arithmetic book on the line and pen , Freybergk 1564, printed by Jakub Bärwald in Leipzig
  • Caspar Thierfelder: Arithmetica or Arithmetic Book on Lines and Numbers , Nuremberg 1587

literature

  • Alfred Hoffmann : The arithmetic book of the Steyr arithmetic master Caspar Thierfelder from 1587 as a source of economic history. In: Contributions to economic history. 1, 4, ISSN  0723-5461 , pp. 678-693.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after David Eugene Smith , Rara Arithmetica , 1908
  2. ↑ http://www.eisenstrasse.info/fileadmin/images/01_Kulturpark_Eisenstrasse/GutachtenEisenwurzenEndfassung.pdf
  3. ↑ Free press: Arithmetic artists from Freiberg are not forgotten among experts
personal data
SURNAME Thierfelder, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German arithmetic master
DATE OF BIRTH around 1525
DATE OF DEATH around 1594