Valentin Steinmetz

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Valentin Steinmetz (* around 1547 in Görsbach near Nordhausen in Northern Thuringia; † around 1597 in Tunzenhausen near Sömmerda ) was a German Protestant pastor, astronomer and calendar editor.

Life

He was a son of Valentin Steinmetz the Elder. Ä. and Ottilia, née Zigler, his brother was Moritz Steinmetz . In his youth he attended school in Leipzig . From the winter semester 1565/66 he studied at the University of Leipzig , a. a. with Joachim Camerarius , where he received his baccalaureate in 1570 and his master's degree in 1574. After that he was a "school servant" in Leipzig. From 1586 to 1594 he was pastor in Tunzenhausen, in 1597 he only calls himself "Philomathesius".

With his brother Moritz he observed the Great Comet of 1577 and described it in his work Von dem Cometen, which first appeared in November of the 1577th Jars and can still be seen in the sky… . In 1582 he and his brother wrote a report for the Saxon elector on the calendar reform Gregor XIII on behalf of the University of Leipzig . In 1581 he took over the publication of an annual astrological calendar from his brother, which was published until 1597.

Publications

  • About the comet who first appeared in November of the 1577th jars, and can still be seen in the sky, how he proceeded from evening and noon, towards morning and midnight, observed and described in Leipzig . Augsburg / Magdeburg / Leipzig 1577 (3 different prints, digitized edition Augsburg ).
    • 1581 to 1597 astrological calendar, a. a.
    • Practica on the year MDLXXXI , 1581
    • Prognosticon astrologicum: Auff… 1582 , Erffordt: By Johann Beck
    • Prognosticon astrologicvm, Oder, Grosse Deutsche Practica auff the year ... 1584 ... , 1583

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden Locat 7285/2, pages 28–32.

Web links

  • Valentin Steinmetz in the Biobibliographisches Handbuch der Kalendermetz from 1550 to 1750
personal data
SURNAME Steinmetz, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical clergyman, astronomer and calendar editor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1547
PLACE OF BIRTH Goersbach
DATE OF DEATH around 1597
Place of death Tunzenhausen