Melchior Jöstel
Melchior Jöstel (born April 10, 1559 in Dresden , † June 13, 1611 in Freiberg ) was a German mathematician and physician.
Life
Melchior Jöstel was born as the son of Johann Jöstel (1549 citizen and goldsmith, 1573–1591 councilor in Dresden) and his wife Ursula, daughter of the Dresden citizen Melchior Kühne. On May 22, 1577 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , where he acquired the degree of master's degree on March 19, 1583. He then became an assistant to the mathematician and mint master in Annaberg , Abraham Riese (1533? -1604), who was a son of Adam Ries . In 1592 Jöstel turned to the electoral administrator Friedrich Wilhelm von Sachsen-Weimar , who on July 4, 1592 instructed the Wittenberg University to bring Jöstel to a mathematics professorship at the earliest opportunity so that he could hold him for Saxony.
After Peter Otto († 1595) died, Jöstel was transferred to his professorship for higher mathematics. So he got into the senate of the philosophical faculty in 1594. In the winter semester of 1600 and 1606 he was their dean. In the summer semester of 1606 he administered the office of Vice Rector . Jöstel tried to build an observatory that was to be built on the wall of the Wittenberg fortress. Jöstel had previously carried out sky observations with students on the Wall several times.
His research areas were trigonometry and the calculation of the lunar orbits based on preliminary work by Tycho Brahe . He had been on friendly terms with Brahe. He had also corresponded with Johannes Kepler on mathematical subjects. In addition, Jöstel, like many of his mathematical colleagues at the time, was also interested in medicine. On October 3, 1600, under Andreas Schato (1539–1603), he obtained his licentiate in medicine with the dissertation De vertigine . On October 14, 1600 he received his doctorate in medicine with the dissertation Oratio de contagione with Schato . In 1611 he was given the management of the Dresden Art Chamber, in which function he could no longer be active due to his death.
He married Martha Moller (1577–1617) on November 3, 1601 in Wittenberg.
Selection of works
- Algorithm of flechen, so that the type and shape are identical and uniform and with straight lines, 1584 (translated into Latin)
- Logistica Prosthaphaersis Astronomica (edited by H. von Braunmühl in a Festschrift, pp. 17-29); Original in Dresden Library 1908
- Oratio de initüs progressu, dignitate ... mathematum, Wittenberg 1595
- Lunae deliquium ad hunc Christi annum 1599 ex Tychonis Brahe tabulis supputatum. Wittenberg 1599
literature
- Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
- Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
- Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502–1652) - A biobibliographical overview. In: Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and social affairs in Central Germany during the Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7 .
- Ancestry from all German districts (AaadG), Volume 1. CA Starke, Görlitz 1931
- Letters to Melchior Jöstel. In: Hamburg, State Library, Cod. Alch. 651, pp. 390-391
- Gustaf Hjalmar Eneström: Bibliotheca Mathematica . BG Teubner, 1908, pp. 212-213
- Anton Braunmühl: Lectures on the history of trigonometry . BG Teubner, 1900
- Helwig Garth: Christian funeral and consolation sermon ... at the funeral ceremony of ... Melch. Jöstelii. Johann Gormann, Wittenberg, 1611 ( digitized version )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jöstel, Melchior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and physician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1559 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1611 |
| Place of death | Freiberg |