Herwart von Hohenburg

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Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg (also Hans Georg Hörwarth; 1553–1622) was a

patron and correspondent of Johannes Kepler
.

Herwart served as

Duke of Bavaria,[1] and was regarded by the Bavarian aristocracy as an effective intermediary during the turbulent transition from the reign of Duke Wilhelm V to that of his successor, Maximilian I.[2]

Herwart's fields as a scholar were

Joost Bürgi and John Napier. He was also associated with Tycho Brahe, Johannes Praetorius, and Helisaeus Roeslin
.

Herwart often lent Kepler books that might otherwise have been unavailable to him, and used his influence to help Kepler retain academic appointments despite his

Lucan, is available online
in English translation.

Herwart published a

folio volume of more than a thousand pages, Tabulae arithmeticae προσθαφαιρἐσεως universales, (Munich, 1610).[6]

Further reading

References

  1. J. L. E. Dreyer, Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century (Edinburgh 1890), p. 292 online.
  2. ^ Patrick Boner, "A Scholar and a Statesman: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a Critic and Patron of Johannes Kepler," paper presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the History of Science Society, abstract online.
  3. ^ The Galileo Project, "Kepler, Johannes."
  4. ^ Max Caspar, Kepler, translated and edited by C. Doris Hellman (New York: Dover, 1993), pp. 80, 83, et passim.
  5. ^ Patrick Boner, "Scholar and a Statesman."
  6. ^ Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee (1911). "Table, Mathematical" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 327.

External links

  • Herwart's Catalogus Graecorum manuscriptorum codicum qui asservantur in inclyta serenissimi utriusque Bavariae Ducis ... Bibliotheca (1602), a catalogue of Greek manuscripts and codices in the library of the Duke of Bavaria, digital facsimile
  • "Who the Heck is Herwart von Hohenburg?", on Hohenburg's 1610 Thesaurus Hieroglyphicorum, Seattle P.I. blog
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