Franz Brasser

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Franz Brasser
Magic square from Brasser's arithmetic book

Franz Brasser (* around 1520 ; † March 22, 1594 in Lübeck ) was a typist and arithmetic master in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

He was the founder and director of the most successful German school (in contrast to the Latin school , the Katharineum zu Lübeck ) in Lübeck. When the school master guild was founded in 1558, he became one of the two elders and inspector of all German schools in the city. For more than twenty years he was also foreman of the Katharinenkirche .

Franz Brasser is the author of an arithmetic book for merchants with the title Arittmetica edder Rekenboek up alle Koepmannshandling, first printed in 1552 in Lübeck in Middle Low German . It appeared in four editions. At that time, Middle Low German, together with the very closely related Middle Dutch, was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League between Flanders and the entire Baltic region. Brasser's work was translated into High German and had more than 15 editions in this version by 1710. The Bremen arithmetic master Otto Wesellow translated it into Latin, this translation has also been reprinted several times. In the foreword of the Latin translation, Brasser is emphasized as "Teacher from all of Saxony and the German seaside towns". A total of 44 editions have survived, of which 26 have also been bibliographically proven.

The only authentic portrait of Brasser can be found in the Hamburg edition of Ein nye Rekensboeck from 1594; all portraits in later editions are not authentic.

Works

  • Eyn never || vnde Wolge = || founds Reekensbock / || vp of lines vnnde digits / vp allerleye || Koepmans handelin = || ge Doerch Franciscum || Brasser / Reekenmeister || tho Luebeck / allen leff = || hebbern duesser art / tho gude gerekent vnd ​​gemaket / || Lübeck: Johann Balhorn 1552 ( VD16 B 7112 )
  • Latin edition: Arithmetica Francisci Brasseri… / Ab Ottone Wesellow Ex Germanica in Latinum sermonem versa, atq [ue] in lucem edita. Hamburg: Carstens 1622
  • High German edition: Kurtzes well-founded arithmetic booklet / directed towards Kauffmann's actions / and made for the beginning pupil / by Franciscum Brasser / Weyland famous typist and arithmetic master in Lübeck. So again and again with diligence / and next to / by Mr. Joachim Kron resolved Regula Falsi ... together with its appended polygonal, pyramidal and columnar tasks with the addition of the resolution of the same / besides explanation of final polygonal and proportional numbers. Hamburg: Völckers, Neumann 1693
  • A newe arithmetic book on all Kauffmans trade, for the beginning student. Lübeck 1663 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Moritz Cantor :  Brasser, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 259.
  • Johann Moller : Cimbria litterata I , 66.
  • Gerhard Johannes Vossius : De universae mathesios natura et constitutione liber, cui subjungitur chronologia mathematicorum , 1650, chapter 53, § 7, p. 323.
  • Willy Ruge: The heyday of the German schools in Lübeck in the second half of the 16th century. In: ZVGLA , 8, 1902, pp. 410-546
  • Ulrich Reich: 400th anniversary of the death of the typist Franciscus Brasser. In: Der Wagen , 1995/96, pp. 74–118

Web links

Commons : Franz Brasser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Middle Low German name: dudesche Schole
  2. ↑ Middle Low German name: Latin Schole
  3. ↑ Middle Low German name: duedesche Sprake
personal data
SURNAME Brasser, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brasser, Franciscus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German arithmetic master
DATE OF BIRTH around 1520
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1594
Place of death Lübeck