Joachim Heller
Joachim Heller ( Hellerus Joachimus , Ioachimus Heller Leucopetraeus ) (* around 1518 in Weißenfels , † around 1590 in Eisleben ) was a mathematician, teacher and headmaster, calendar writer , astronomer and composer in Nuremberg.
Life
Heller studied languages and mathematics in Wittenberg and in 1543 became head of the Latin school - also trivial school - St. Egidien in Nuremberg . In 1544 he married Barbara Buchner from Schwabach. Since then he has worked with Johannes Schöner on a work on Regiomontanus . After Schöne could no longer hold his classes from 1546 for health reasons, Heller, on the recommendation of Philipp Melanchthon, also took over teaching mathematics at the Upper School in the same building, from which today's Melanchthon Grammar School in Nuremberg emerged . He also became the city's official calendar writer.
Around 1551 he set up a printing house in which he printed leaflets and calendars. Since he neglected his teaching duties, he was deposed in 1556 by the council as headmaster of the Latin school. He kept his mathematics professorship at the upper school.
In 1554 he translated Un signe effroyable et merveilleux by Nostradamus and published his report on a comet observed on March 19, 1554 over Salon-de-Provence under the title A Terrible and Wonderful Zeychen from the French. He observed the comet of 1556 for 53 days. These records remained unknown until the Braunschweig librarian Ludwig Konrad Bethmann made Karl Ludwig von Littrow aware of them in 1856 . Several of his two-part songs and chants can be found in Erasmus Rotenbucher's compilation.
After he had interfered in church disputes about Matthias Flacius in 1563 , he was removed from all his offices by the council and had to leave Nuremberg. He moved to Saxony, where he is said to have died in Eisleben in 1590.
literature
- Robert Eitner: Heller, Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 694.
Web links
- The writings and prints of Joachim Heller zu Nürnberg at zannoth.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ naa.net
- ^ Nostradamus: Un signe effroyable et merveilleux
- ↑ biologiezentrum.at (PDF; 1 MB)
- ^ Robert Eitner: Rotenbucher, Erasmus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 297.
- ↑ Heller, Joach. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 1287.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heller, Joachim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hellerus, Joachimus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, director of the Egidiengymnasium and calendar writer in Nuremberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1518 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1590 |
| Place of death | Eisleben |