Nicholas Pompey

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Nikolaus Pompeius also: Pompejus (* July 31, 1591 in Golßen ; † October 1, 1659 in Wittenberg ) was a German philologist and mathematician.

Life

Nicolaus was born the son of pastor Andreas Pompeius and his wife Maria Schulz. Pompey came to the University of Wittenberg in 1616 as a teacher for some nobles , where he matriculated on June 27th. Here he studied philosophy and theology , where he acquired special rhetorical skills. In addition, he dealt with a reference work for Latin grammar , which appeared in Köthen in 1620 under the title Compendium grammaticae Latinae ad didacticam . On March 16, 1624 he acquired the degree of master's degree in philosophy. Then he traveled with some nobles to the University of Leipzig and enrolled on November 15, 1630 at the theological faculty of the University of Strasbourg . After attending other universities, he returned to Wittenberg and began to give private lectures.

On November 13, 1637 he became an adjunct of the philosophical faculty and in the same year he was appointed professor of lower mathematics in Wittenberg. In his capacity as a university lecturer in Leucorea, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the educational institution. In the winter semesters 1639, 1644, 1650 and 1656 he was dean of the philosophical faculty and in the summer semester 1646 rector of the alma mater . After his death, an epitaph was set up in the Wittenberg town church and Johannes Kreße published 1682 under the title " Praecepta Chiromantica Clarissimi Nicolai Pompei Inferiorum Mathematum in alma Wittebergensium Academia, dum vixit Professoris celeberrimi, pro recogna olim ab ipso, Anno Christiianorum 1653 , descripta, figurisque ligno incisis aucta "the content of his lectures.

Pompey had married Maria Dhen, widow of Gerhard Beck, in 1640. Nicolaus Andreas Pompejus, Christian August Pompejus, Maria Catharina Pompeius and Agnes Dorothea Pompeius are known of the children from this marriage.

literature

  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1751, Vol. 3, Sp. 1678
  • Klaus Conermann: Martin Opitz - correspondence and testimonials. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 9783110179071 , p. 638 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602-1660). Magdeburg, 1934
  2. ↑ Andreas Sennert: Athenae Itemq: Inscriptiones Wittebergenses. Johannes Wilcke, Wittenberg. 1678, Libri II
  3. ↑ Contents: NICOLAUS POMPEJUS, Lusatus, Mathem. infer. PP qui natus cIↄ Iↄ XCI. Jul. D. 31. denatus cIↄ Iↄ CLIX Octobr. d. 2. Professorio functus munere annis prope XXII. (Sennert: Athenae .... II, p. 258, seems to have been lost)
  4. ^ Verlag Zacharias Hertel and Matthias Weyrauch, Hamburg 1682 ( online )
  5. ↑ * 1643 in Wittenberg; April 30, 1651dp, June 30, 1664 registered UWB; Dr. jur. University. Altdorf; De existentia juris gentium. (Altdorf 1688), May 2, 1683 Professor of Law and Rhetoric at the Marienstiftsgymnasium Stettin; † 1702 in Stettin, c. December 21, 1702
  6. ↑ * April 18, 1646 in Wittenberg, registered April 30, 1651 UWB, August 29, 1578 Lic. Jur., December 14, 1682 Dr. jur., Advocat Hofgericht; † September 1, 1684 in Wittenberg; Modos probandi filiationem. Wittenberg 1683
personal data
SURNAME Pompey, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nicolaus Pompey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1591
PLACE OF BIRTH Golßen
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1659
Place of death Wittenberg