Jan van Bronkhorst

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Jan van Bronkhorst , also Johannes Bronkhorst , Johannes Bronchorst or Johannes Noviomagus / Neomagus (* 1494 in Nijmegen , Duchy of Geldern , † 1570 in Cologne ) was a Dutch mathematician and university professor.

Life

Jan van Bronkhorst attended the Brothers' School of Life Together (Broeders des gemeenen levens) in Nijmegen . On October 10, 1526 he was admitted to the Universitas Studii Coloniensis at the artist faculty . In November 1527 he received his doctorate to the Bachelor of Artium, in March 1529 he received the licentiate and in December 1531 the Magister artium . In the same year he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Montanerburse belonging to Cologne University . From 1532 he was also Bursen regent and in 1534 he was the annual dean of the artist faculty. He read on mathematics and Greek and also worked as a translator of Greek works.

In order to help the University of Rostock , which was declining in the turmoil of the Reformation , to regain a reputation, Andreas Eggerdes was sent to Cologne in 1540 on behalf of the Rostock Senate to recruit teachers for the Rostock Academy with financial help from several Hanseatic cities . Bronkhorst, Gisbert Longolius from Utrecht and Johannes Strubbe from Deventer were among those courted by the councilors . In 1542 they came to Rostock, where they were enrolled together on November 11th at the Philosophical Faculty by the then rector Eggerdes. Bronkhorst's reception as council professor of mathematics took place on December 13th. In the semesters 1543/44 he was rector of the university, 1544/45 dean of the faculty. He was also an inspector of the Great City School .

Bronkhorst left Rostock in 1546 and became rector of the collegiate school in Deventer. Here he obtained the title Licentiate iur. utr. In 1548 he married Clara de Coster, daughter of the Deventer mayor Johannis de Coster. Their son Everard van Bronkhorst (1554–1627) became a doctor iur. and professor in Leiden . As a Reformer exposed to the religious persecution of the Duke of Alba , Bronkhorst left Deventer in 1569 and went back to Cologne. Here he died the following year. When the clergy refused to have a burial in consecrated ground, the mayor Constantin von Lyskirchen had him buried.

Fonts (selection)

  • Claudius Ptolemaeus / Georgius Trapezuntius : Cl. Ptolomaei Pheludiensis Alexandrini philosophi et mathematici excellentissimi Phaenomena stellarum MXXII. fixarum, ad hanc aetatem reducta atque seorsim in studiosorum gratiam nunc primum edita, Agrippina, Colonia 1537 [VD16 P 5203] ( digitized BSB Munich )
  • The southern starry sky with its constellations. Engraving, object HB27108 in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg
  • De Necessaria et utili scholae constitutione et de recta iuventutis information. Rostock, around 1542
    ( useful information about the school constitution and the law of young people )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the RAG, see web links.
  2. ↑ 1526, 551, # 28 Joh. Hovel de Novimagio. In: Hermann Keussen (Hrsg.): The matriculation of the University of Cologne. see literature.
  3. ↑ Marko A. Pluns: The University of Rostock 1418–1563: see literature.
  4. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Longolius, Gisbert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 155 f.
  5. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal, see web links.
  6. ↑ Walther Neumann (ed.): The great city school in Rostock in 3 1/2 centuries. Rostock 1930, p. 9.
  7. ^ Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. see literature.
  8. ↑ Illustration in the GNM Nuremberg
personal data
SURNAME Bronkhorst, Jan van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bronkhorst, Johannes; Bronchorst, Johannes; Noviomagus, Johannes; Neomagus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1494
PLACE OF BIRTH Nijmegen , Duchy of Geldern
DATE OF DEATH 1570
Place of death Cologne