Daniel Schwenter

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1623 Portrait of Schwenter in Geometriæ practicæ novæ et auctæ tractatus . Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)

Daniel Schwenter (also: Schwender ; born January 31, 1585 in Nuremberg ; † January 19 jul. / January 29,  1636 greg. In Altdorf near Nuremberg ) was a German orientalist and mathematician.

Life

Schwenter studied oriental languages ​​and mathematics at the University of Altdorf , where he was a student of the mathematician and astronomer Johann Richter (Johannes Praetorius). In 1606 he became professor of Hebrew there, in 1625 professor of all oriental languages ​​and in 1628 also professor of mathematics. This emerges from a foreword written by Schwenter for the book Kurtzer, thorough, warhaffter, improved and increased teaching, preparation and use of Deß Circkels Schregmeß and Linial by Georg Galgemair and an old chronicle of the University of Altdorf.

Works

Deliciae physico-mathematicae , 1636
  • Sunde, Janus Hercules de, pseud. [ie Daniel Schwenter]: Steganologia et Steganographia aucta, Secret, Magical, Natural Red and Writing Art ... Revised to the new ... for the second time made in truck by JH de S. Nuremberg, [1600]. 2nd expanded edition [1622] ( books.google.com ).
  • Steganologia & Steganograpia Nova: Secret Magical, Natural Speech and Writing Art ...: Desire for various things of a high person, published and given by Resene Gibronte Runeclus Hanedi [ie Daniel Schwenter]… 1st edition. Halbmayer, Nuremberg [circa 1620], archive.org .
  • De Talmudh Judæorum oratio . Norimbergæ 1623.
  • Geometriæ practicæ novæ tractatus . 3 volumes. Nuremberg 1618-25.
  • Geometriæ practicæ novæ et auctæ tractatus . 4 volumes. Nuremberg 1623-27 (2nd edition); 1641 (3rd edition). New edition: Nuremberg 1667. Tractatus primus, 1625, books.google.com
  • With Simon Stevin : Short but thorough report of the calculation of the Tabularum Sinuum, Tangentium and Secantium . Nuremberg 1628.
  • With Georg Philipp Harsdörffer : Deliciae physico-mathematicae or mathematical and philosophical refreshment hours: in it six hundred three and sixty beautiful, lovely, and agreeable tricks, tasks and questions from the art of arithmetic, land fairs, perspective, the denunciation of nature and other sciences genom [m] en, understood how such have been neatly listed one after the other on the other pages of this sheet . 3 volumes. Nuremberg 1636–52. 1636 , 1692: Part 3  - Internet Archive . Reprint: Frankfurt / M. 1990/91.
  • Mensula Praetoriana Description dess nutzlichen geometric Tischleins of the fürtrefflichen and far-famed Mathematico M. Johanne praetorio S. invented . Nuremberg 1641. Reprint: Dortmund 1986.
  • Miraculous ... history of the world-known shield-citizens in Misnopotamia behind Utopia ... By Peter Squentz [pseud., D. H. D. Schwenter] published. [1698?].

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Kern: Scientific instruments in their time . Volume 2: From Compendium to Individual Instrument . Cologne 2010, pp. 276–277.
personal data
SURNAME Schwenter, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwender, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1636
Place of death Altdorf near Nuremberg