Sigismund Weier

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sigismund Weier (also: Weyer ; * February 28, 1579 in Schmoditten ; † March 24, 1661 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German mathematician, librarian and historian.

Life

Weier was the son of the future pastor in Schippenbeil (today Polish: Sępopol) Sigismund Weier († March 3, 1585) and his wife Elisabeth, daughter of the councilor in Bartenstein (Bartoszyce) Franz Fehrmann. His grandfather Benedict Weier (1482–1550), who came from Danzig, was the first Protestant preacher in Schippenbeil. After his father's early death, his mother moved back to live with his grandfather in Bartenstein, where he initially attended school. In 1596 he continued his education at the Gymnasium in Lübeck . After three years he began studying at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) . Here he was able to earn his living as a private tutor and toured several other German universities with his pupils.

In 1604 he continued his studies at the University of Wittenberg . Here he had also attended the theological lectures by David Runge , Leonhard Hutter and Wolfgang Franz . But also the lectures at the philosophical faculty in poetry with Friedrich Taubmann , in ethics with Martin Helwig , in history with Lorenz Rhodomann , in logic with Jakob Martini and in mathematics with Melchior Jöstel . Here he had acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences on March 19, 1605. He then went to other universities until, towards the end of 1605, the University of Königsberg appointed him professor of mathematics.

He had assumed this office on May 7, 1606 with the disputation de rotunditate terrae . In Königsberg he appeared with the production of calendars and let his pen flow De hypothesi prima astrali Astronomiae, seu partibus coeli (Königsberg 1614) and De figura, fitu & motu coeli, item de figura & fitu terrae (Königsberg 1618). In 1621 he exchanged his professorship in mathematics for the professorship in history. After working for a long time at the Königsberg University, the senior of the same was assigned Jakob Tydäus as adjunct in 1658 and he was retired from the position in the same year for reasons of age. Weier, who had also been the librarian of the Königsberg university library since 1615, remained so until the end of his life, which resulted in a heart attack. In addition, he had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University. He was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semesters 1628, 1636 and 1644 and in the winter semesters 1621/22 and 1654/55 .

family

Weier was married twice.

His first marriage was on November 16, 1607 with Elisabeth (~ June 11, 1588), daughter of the Königsberg professor Paul Weiss .

After the death of his first wife, he married Susanna on September 19, 1639 († January 3, 1669), daughter of the councilor in Bartenstein Martin Seelig, widow of the school principal in Königsberg Mag. Peter Mauritius.

The latter marriage remained childless. From the first marriage came a son who died before his father. Three sons survived the father. The daughter Elisabeth (* May 13, 1601; † November 26, 1657) married on January 22, 1631 with the professor of logic and metaphysics Mag. Michael Eifler .

literature

  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, Part 2, pp. 375, 397 FZ 17
  • Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1886, p. 50
  • Weyer or Weier, Sigmund. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 55, Leipzig 1748, column 1177.
  • J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883, (7th & 8th issue) p. 628
  • Friedrich Johann Buck: Biographies of the deceased mathematicians in general and of the great Prussian mathematician P. Christian Otters, who died more than a hundred years ago, credibly promoted to print, especially in two departments. Hartung & Zeise, Königsberg and Leipzig, 1764, p. 49 ( online )
  • Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon. 1751, Vol. 4, Col. 1854

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cannot be found in the matriculation records
  2. ↑ Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502-1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , p. 455 ff.
  3. ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis- Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660), Magdeburg, 1934, (1604, No. 55)
personal data
SURNAME Weier, Sigismund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weyer, Sigismund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, librarian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1579
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmoditten
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1661
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)