Theodor Pyl (theologian)

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Portrait of the deacon Magister Theodor Pyl in the Cathedral of St. Nikolai Greifswald

Theodor Pyl (born August 20, 1647 in Stralsund , † July 19, 1723 in Greifswald ) was a German Lutheran theologian and physicist .

Life

Theodor Pyl came from a Stralsund patrician family. He attended high school in Stralsund and studied at the University of Greifswald from 1666 . He later moved to the University of Jena , where he gave lectures in mathematics and obtained his master's degree in 1672 .

After his return to Greifswald, he gave lectures there in 1675 on mathematics and fortress construction . In 1676 he became an adjunct of the philosophical faculty. In the same year, after a trial sermon, he was appointed deacon of the Greifswald Cathedral of St. Nikolai . From 1701 he was professor of theology at Greifswald University. He also dealt with mechanics . The later archdeacon and chronicler Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt wrote: “What he achieved in this subject was valued in his time”. His scientific work includes treatises on planetary motion and accurate timekeeping.

After his death he was buried in Greifswald Cathedral, which also contains an oil painting with his portrait as a deacon.

His son Christoph Pyl (1678–1739) was a pedagogue and historian.

Fonts

  • Stilbon varians, seu hypothesium iisque innixorum calculorum Rudolphini et Cimbrici mirus sensus dissensus in loco Mercurii ad meridiem Adolphi, 1702.
  • Horologium accuratum (monograph on the regulation of clocks).

literature

  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania . Part IV, Volume 1, Anklam 1866, pp. 896f., No. 23 ( digitized version )
  • Johann Christoph Adelung and Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: General learned lexicon . Continuations and additions. tape 6 . bremen 1819, p. 1082 ( google.es ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of the deacon Magister Theodor Pyl. Website Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald, accessed on March 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pyl, Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1723
Place of death Greifswald