Johann Masius

Johann Masius (born November 14, 1613 in Crempe or Glückstadt ; † June 14, 1642 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German physician and astronomer.

Johann Masius attended the Athenaeum in Stade and the grammar school in Hamburg , where he was evicted . He then studied medicine and mathematics in Franeker , Groningen and Leiden . From 1636 Masius studied medicine and natural sciences at the University of Königsberg , where he was awarded a master's degree in 1638 and a doctorate in 1640. PhD. He died at the age of 29, leaving behind both medical and astronomical writings. The deacon of the old town church in Königsberg Urban Lepner († 1645) gave him the funeral sermon. A year later his son Johann Georg also died; the poet Simon Dach wrote a consolation for the grieving widow and mother.

literature

Friedrich Johann Buck : Life descriptions of the deceased Prussian mathematicians in general: and of the great Prussian mathematician P. Christian Otters, who died more than a hundred years ago, particularly credibly promoted to print in two departments , JHH Erben and JD Zeise, Königsberg and Leipzig 1764, p. 77 / 78 ( digitized version )
Wilhelm Hess : Masius, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 563.

Web links

Publications by and about Johann Masius in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

↑ It is unclear whether the ADB refers to Crempe (today Neustadt in Holstein ) or Krempe (Steinburg) . In the publications "Holsatus" (from Holstein ) is named as origin. Buck names Bilenburg in Holstein as the place of birth.
^ Urban Lepner in: Altpreuß. Biography , pp. 999-1000
↑ Consolation-Schrifftchen Bey anxious and highly worried but blissful absence of the ... child Johannis Georgen / Des ... Hn. Johannis Masiussen / the Artzney and Philosophiae Doctoris etc. left sons: To the deeply sad Fraw mother ... Fr. Catharina Lothinn written 1643. June 7th. Königsberg: Reusner 1643 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Masius, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH	Crempe or Glückstadt
DATE OF DEATH	June 14, 1642
Place of death	Königsberg (Prussia)

[1] It is unclear whether the ADB refers to Crempe (today Neustadt in Holstein ) or Krempe (Steinburg) . In the publications "Holsatus" (from Holstein ) is named as origin. Buck names Bilenburg in Holstein as the place of birth.

[2] Urban Lepner in: Altpreuß. Biography , pp. 999-1000

[3] Consolation-Schrifftchen Bey anxious and highly worried but blissful absence of the ... child Johannis Georgen / Des ... Hn. Johannis Masiussen / the Artzney and Philosophiae Doctoris etc. left sons: To the deeply sad Fraw mother ... Fr. Catharina Lothinn written 1643. June 7th. Königsberg: Reusner 1643 ( digitized version )