Bartholomaeus pitiscus biography of michael

German astronomer and mathematician (1561–1613)

Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (also Barthélemy or Bartholomeo; August 24, 1561 – August 24, 1613) was a 16th-century Germantrigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry.

Biography

Pitiscus was born to poor parents in Grünberg (now Zielona Góra, Poland), then part of the Duchy of Glogau/Głogów, one of the Habsburg-ruled Duchies of Silesia.

He studied theology in Zerbst and Heidelberg.

A Calvinist, he was appointed to teach the ten-year-old Frederick IV, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, by Frederick's Calvinist uncle Johann Casimir of Simmern, as Frederick's father had died in 1583. Pitiscus was subsequently appointed court chaplain at Breslau (Wrocław) and court preacher to Frederick.

Pitiscus supported Frederick's subsequent measures against the Roman Catholic Church.

Bartholomaeus pitiscus biography of michael

Pitiscus died in Heidelberg. The lunar craterPitiscus is named after him.

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