Peter Koster

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Peter Koster (* 1640 in Bremen ; † March 1710 in Bremen) was a German typist and arithmetic master as well as a chronicler.

Life

Koster was the son of Arndt Koster and his wife Bartje, who probably lived in the Stephaniviertel in Bremen; He was also baptized in St. Stephen's Church. He attended the parish school. His broad education in mathematics and Latin suggest that he attended Latin school and perhaps at times the illustrious grammar school. In 1663 he was appointed schoolmaster by the head of the Red Orphanage (red clothes for the children) of St. Ansgariikirche . His arithmetic book Die Bremer Münze with instructions on the art of arithmetic and comparing coins and weights, written in 1664 (about 120 years after Adam Ries' arithmetic books appeared ), was in use in several editions for about 150 to 180 years.

In 1667 he became a schoolmaster in the Neustadt parish of St. Pauli, founded in 1639 . As early as 1668, however, he moved to the St. Ansgarii church as a schoolmaster and arithmetic master and in the same year married Anna Margaretha Wippermann, a sister of the legal scholar Engelbert Wippermann . In 1673 he completed the two-volume work of the copy of the Johann Renner Chronicle as the Chronica of the City of Bremen . The Bremen Church History , another work, remained unprinted.

His Bremen Chronicle of the 17th Century is described as an “outstanding intellectual achievement” . With the experience he had gathered, Koster began his important work in the 1670s. In February 1685 he finished the first part of this chronicle. At the same time as the Renner Chronicle, he wrote one

Brief summary of the history of Bremen, what Merck-worthy alda has happened from anno 788 to anno 1600, from Johannis Renneri written Bremer Chronica and other directories, including a small appendix from anno 1583, because Renner stopped until 1600.

In 1700 he completed the 800-page city chronicle. The chronicle was not published, but remained with the heirs. It came into the possession of Senator Johann Gildemeister (1713–1776) in the 18th century and was donated to the Bremen State Archives by the Gildemeister family in 1873 . The work was printed in 2004.

His daughter Anna Margaretha married the wealthy patrician Hermann Baer in 1687 . Koster remarried in 1702 after the death of his first wife. He remained active as a schoolmaster until his death. He was buried at St. Ansgarii.

Works

  • New, well-founded Bremen coin , 1664. New at Schünemann-Verlag , Bremen 1918/19 urn : nbn: de: gbv: 46: 1-4295
  • Chronica of the city of Bremen from 1583, copy from 1673
  • Brief summary of the history of Bremen ... , 1685
  • Chronicle of the Imperial Free Imperial and Hanseatic City of Bremen 1600–1700 . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-86108-687-5 .
  • Translation of Heinrich Krefting's work: Discursus de republica Bremen from 1602 to around 1700
  • Brief message from the churches, schools, monasteries and poor houses in the city of Bremen from 1702

literature

Individual evidence

  1. www.opus.ub.uni-erlangen.de - Rechenbuch.pdf (7.1.1.1.2)
  2. www-user.uni-bremen.de ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Seventeenth century after our era @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www-user.uni-bremen.de