Levinus Hulsius

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Levinus Hulsius or Levin Hulsius (* 1546 in Gent , Flanders ; † March 13, 1606 in Frankfurt am Main ; also Livinus Hulsius and Levinus van Hulse ) was a notary , author and publisher of the Calvinist faith from the Spanish Netherlands .

Life

In early 1598, Hulsius published a German translation of the Dutch account of the journey of Cornelis de Houtman

After a long stay in Middelburg (Holland), Levin Hulsius settled as a religious refugee in Frankenthal (Palatinate) (then Bavaria ) in 1583 . He founded a French school that was successful nationwide. After difficulties with the city he closed the school again in 1586 and tried in vain to be allowed to give French lessons at the University of Heidelberg . Eventually he moved to Nuremberg and worked there as a language teacher, notary, writer, publisher and as a dealer with mathematical and astronomical equipment.

Tractatus instrumentorum mechanicorum , 1605

In 1602 he went to Holland and England for a year and a half.

From 1596 he also worked as an author and publisher, including a French-German (1596) and an Italian-German (1605) dictionary: several editions are known of both works. In his own translation from Dutch into German, the first shipping and discovery reports appeared in 1598, which was continued as a very successful series after his death by his widow and heirs (a total of 26 travel reports).

He also published works on astronomy and mathematical devices. From the heirs of Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) he acquired the printing plates of the Astronomiae instauratae mechanica for a second edition (1602). In Scripture third treaty of mechanical instruments (1604/5) he mentions the reduction circle of Jost Bürgi and complains that several mechanics had rebuilt its circle.

Other pieces of equipment that Hulsius dealt with include a semicircular instrument and a gun attachment. Hulsius actually wanted to show and describe 16 instruments, but his unexpected death prevented him from doing so.

In addition to his occupation with books, Hulsius was also active as a dealer of scientific instruments such as astrolabes, quadrants, sundials as well as earth and celestial globes. Perhaps he was even the founder of the actual instrument trade. Although Hulsius must have built scientific instruments himself, none have survived today. The copperplate engravings for the globes he sold were probably made by Cornelius de Jode (1568–1600).

There is a historical representation (map) of Ireland from 1604.

genealogy

  1. Levinus Hulsius (* 1546 in Gent, East Flanders; † 1606 in Frankfurt am Main)
    ∞1 NN
    ∞2 on January 20, 1587 in Frankenthal Susanna van Roomen
    ∞3 around 1600 Maria Ruting; continued the company under the name Verlag Witwe Hulsius .
    Children: at least one son from the first marriage and at least three sons and one daughter from the third marriage.
    1. Esaias Hulsius (also Esaias van Hulsen, approx. 1580–1626); Goldsmith, engineer, engraver and engraver in Stuttgart. From him u. a. the representation of the princely elevator and ritterspil from 1626 with a copper engraving of the New Lusthaus in Stuttgart.
    2. Friedrich Hulsius (approx. 1601–1635); Engraver and publisher ( Hulsius Erben ) in Frankfurt am Main.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b see literature NDB Josef Benzing: Hulsius (van Hulsen), Levin
  2. ^ William Jervis Jones: German Lexicography in the European Context. A descriptive bibliography of printed dictionaries and word lists containing German language (1600-1700) . (In: Studia Linguistica Germanica , Volume 58) Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York, 2000, ISBN 3-11-016517-1 , pp. 419-439.
  3. ↑ See, for example, Christophel le Blon (ed.): The five and second two-way shipping / After the Kingdom of Chili in western India. Sambt for a description of the two islands of Formosa and Japan. Frankfurt (Main) 1649. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
  4. ↑ a b c see web link Astronomieportal Nürnberg
  5. ↑ Ralf Kern: From Compendium to Individual Instrument. König, 2010. p. 278.
  6. ↑ according to the NDB on December 11, 1588
  7. ↑ Ulrich Schütte: The castle as a fortification. Fortified castle buildings of the early modern times in the old kingdom . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-534-11692-5 , p. 243.
personal data
SURNAME Hulsius, Levinus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hulsius, Levin; Hulsius, Livinus; Hulse, Levinus van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Notary, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1546
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent , Flanders
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1606
Place of death Frankfurt am Main