Paul Hainzel

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Paul Hainzel (* 1527 ; † May 12, 1581 ) was a German astronomer and mayor of Augsburg .

His brother was Johann Baptist Hainzel . Both studied in Basel , Tübingen and Wittenberg , 1545–1549 in Italy .

He was a friend of Tycho Brahe . At the beginning of 1570, Brahe designed the largest sky observation device in Europe at the time, the Augsburg Quadrant , which was destroyed by a storm in December 1574 at Hainzel's Gögginger Gartengut (partly the former Graf-von-Seysselsche Park) . With the quadrant, Hainzel was able to determine the latitude of his location to 48 degrees and 22 arc minutes in 1572, about two kilometers from the actual value.

The moon crater Hainzel was named after Hainzel .

literature

  • Georg Mylius , Hainzel: A Christian easy preaching except for the 20th, 21st and 22nd verse, of the 68th Psalms, by the Christian corpse and burial of the noble and noble, honorable and honorable gentlemen Paulus Haintzels, mayor of the praiseworthy empire Augspurg, the inn God different.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Augsburgische Bibliothek , Vol. 1, p. 179
  2. ↑ Tyho Brahe in the Danish "Kongelige Bibliotek" Language: Danish
  3. ↑ Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata, page 361
  4. ↑ The princes in the moon: not a novel
personal data
SURNAME Hainzel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer and mayor of Augsburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1527
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1581