Paul Heigel

Paul Heigel (born March 16, 1640 in Nuremberg , † September 18, 1690 in Helmstedt ) was a German mathematician and Protestant theologian.

Life

Heigel came from an old noble family that arose in the Nordgau in the 13th century and immigrated to Franconia via Polockowitz in Silesia . His father was the princely Palatinate-Sulzbach council and fiefdom director Paul Heigel and his mother Anna Maria Koch came from Swabia. After he had attended schools in Nuremberg, including with Johann Michael Dilherr (1604–1669), he began studying in 1656 at the University of Jena . Here he attended the lectures of Paul Slevogt , Johann Zeisold (1599–1667), Johann Frischmuth and especially mathematics with Erhard Weigel . In 1658 he acquired a master's degree in philosophy and then completed theological studies. On October 4, 1660 he moved to the University of Helmstedt , where he stayed for twelve years in the house of Gerhard Titius (1620–1681), who supported him during his studies.

During this time he had also participated in the university's lectures and distinguished himself in particular through his lectures on mathematics and geography. Therefore, in 1666 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Helmstedt by the Braunschweig government and administered it, with the later professorship of higher mathematics, until the end of his life. He assumed the office of dean several times. In 1673 he became an associate professor at the theological faculty and in 1679 a full professor of theology. In the same year 1679, Heigel was appointed to the Harz windmill project by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . In 1680 he became general inspector of the schools and the state of Wolfenbüttel, in 1681 provost of the Marienberg virgin monastery and in 1684 he received his doctorate in theology. With limited health, he died of a fever.

family

His marriage to Catharina, the daughter of the Brunswick-Lüneburg court judge Johann Wineke, on November 25th in Helmstedt resulted in two daughters:

Maria Dorothea Heigel married 1690 with the lawyer Johann Werlhof
Anna Katharina Heigel

Works

Tract. De illuminations. Helmstedt 1661
Positiones mathematicas miscell.
De miracul. 1677
De adiaphoris. 1681
De portis ueteris Jerusalem. 1681
De ueritate religionis christianae et falsitate reliquarum. 1681
De gratiae diuinae sufficient et abundantia. 1683
Inaug. complectentem theses theologicas potissima fidei capita illustrantes. 1684
De praesagiis mortis.
De justitia.

literature

Klaus Jürgen Schmidt: Heigel (from Polokowitz), Paul . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 310
Georg Andreas Will : Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon or description of all Nürnbergischen Schüpfel .... Verlag Lorenz Schüpfel, Nürnberg and Altdorf, 1756, part 2. S. 61 ( online )

Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1980, vol. 10, p. 435, R 9698

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personal data
SURNAME	Heigel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician and Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	September 18, 1690
Place of death	Helmstedt