Rudolph Snellius
Rudolph Snellius , the Latinized form of his Dutch name: Rudolph Snel van Royen , (born October 5, 1546 in Oudewater , † March 2, 1613 in Leiden ) was a Dutch scholar and mathematician.
Life
Snellius came from a wealthy family and studied from around 1561 at the University of Cologne , in Jena, Wittenberg and the University of Heidelberg . In 1566 he obtained his master's degree in Marburg and then studied medicine in Pisa and Florence. In Cologne he was a student of the mathematician, astrologer and astrom Valentin Naboth . He then taught languages, mathematics and logic at the University of Marburg and from 1578 Hebrew and mathematics at the University of Leiden (as the first mathematics professor in Leiden). There he also continued to study medicine. In logic he departed from Aristotle and was influenced by Petrus Ramus , whose works he edited. In 1578 he also visited his hometown, which had been destroyed after a Spanish siege. The inhabitants were massacred in the process, and one of the survivors became Snellius' wife that same year. From 1581 at the latest he was associate professor for mathematics in Leiden and from 1601 full professor for mathematics and philosophy. In 1600 he visited Marburg and Kassel again.
His students include Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609), whom he met in Utrecht in 1575 and took with him to Marburg, later also a professor in Leiden, Hugo Grotius , Isaac Beeckman and his son, the astronomer and mathematician Willebrord van Roijen Snell , after the the Snellius law of refraction is named.
literature
- List of publications in L. de Wreede, Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626), a Humanist Reshaping the Mathematical Sciences, Proefschrift Utrecht 2007
- JJ Verdonk: Petrus Ramus en de Wiskunde, Assen: van Gorcum 1966
- Cornelis de Waard: SNELLIUS (Rudolph) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 7. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1152–1155 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1927, reprinted unchanged).
- Moritz Cantor : Snel van Roijen, Rudolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 502.
- Melchior Adam : Rodolphus Snellius In: Vitae Germanorum Philosophorum , Mainz 1615, pp. 507–509 (Latin)
- Henk Hietbrink: Rudolf Snellius (1546-1613) ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederlandse Wiskundigen , Biography, as of May 2010 (Dutch)
Web links
- Snellius in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Snellius, Rudolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Snel from Royen, Rudolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1546 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oudewater |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1613 |
| Place of death | Suffer |