Michael Bush

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Michael Strauch (born August 27, 1635 in Wittenberg ; † January 6, 1709 there ) was a German mathematician.

Life

Michael Strauch was born as the son of the lawyer Johann Strauch and his wife Katharina Blume. He received his first training from private tutors. After studying at the University of Leipzig and at the University of Wittenberg , he acquired the academic degree of Magister in Philosophy in his hometown on April 29, 1658 . Strauch soon completed an educational trip that took him to the University of Oxford to the mathematician John Wallis and to Danzig to the astronomer Johannes Hevelius . With a multitude of impressions he returned to Wittenberg and became an adjunct of the philosophical faculty here on March 24, 1664 .

He took over the professorship of lower mathematics from his brother Aegidius Strauch II on March 10, 1665 and in 1689 became professor of higher mathematics. In addition, Strauch also took part in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg University. He was dean of the philosophical faculty several times and administered the rectorate of the alma mater in the summer semesters of 1674 and 1694 . On January 13, 1709 he was buried in the Wittenberg Castle Church. Here an epitaph was built for him , but it was a victim of the Seven Years' War in 1760 .

family

In November 1669, Strauch married Anna Magaretha (* Döbeln; † April 26, 1695 in Wittenberg), the daughter of the lawyer and syndic in Döbeln, Johann Zimmermann. The children are known from marriage:

  • T. Anna Magaretha Strauch (born January 20, 1671 in Wittenberg, born January 23, 1672 ibid)
  • T. Barbara Catharina Strauch (* September 24, 1672 in Wittenberg, † June 23, 1716 ibid)
  • T. Johanna Maria (born November 26, 1673 in Wittenberg, † October 17, 1695 in Kemberg) married. September 25, 1694 in Wittenberg with Dr. theol. and the superintendent of Kemberg and later Annaberg Hieronymus Dathe (born February 4, 1667 Hamburg, † June 14, 1707 in Annaberg)
  • S. Johann Michael Strauch (born January 24, 1675 Wittenberg; † August 26, 1675 ibid)
  • T. Magaretha Elisabeth Strauch (born April 29, 1676 in Wittenberg)
  • T. Johanna Sophia Strauch (born September 6, 1677 in Wittenberg, † September 13, 1677 ibid)
  • T. Martha Margaretha (* July 22, 1679 in Wittenberg; † December 16, 1733 ibid) married. in Wittenberg on November 22, 1696 with Dr. jur. and protonotary of the University of Wittenberg Georg Gottfried Heber (born September 2, 1667 Wittenberg), 1695 son of the mayor Georg Heber
  • S. Stillborn (* and † November 7, 1680 in Wittenberg)
  • S. Kasper Michael Strauch (born April 19, 1684 in Wittenberg)
  • S. Johann Conrad Strauch (* March 4, 1687 in Wittenberg, † September 4, 1687 ibid)
  • S. Stillborn (* and † June 21, 1691 in Wittenberg)

Selection of works

  • Dissertationem Historico-Chronologicam De Epocha Mundi Conditi. Wittenberg 1658
  • De Cometis, qui 1664 et 1665 visi sunt, declamtio. Wittenberg 1665

literature

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660), Magdeburg, 1934
  2. ^ Church books Wittenberg
personal data
SURNAME Bush, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1709
Place of death Wittenberg