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Bayer, Johann
- 1. Dates
- Born: Germany, 1572
- Died: Germany, 1625
- Dateinfo: Dates Certain
- Lifespan: 53
- 2. Father
- Occupation: No Information
- No information on financial status.
- 3. Nationality
- Birth: Germany
- Career: Germany
- Death: Germany
- 4. Education
- Schooling: Ingolstadt, Augsburg, L.D.
- 1592, enrolled at Ingolstadt, later moved to Augsburg. He earned a law degree; I assume B.A.
- 5. Religion
- Affiliation: Catholic assumed.
- 6. Scientific Disciplines
- Primary: Astronomy
- 7. Means of Support
- Primary: Lawyer, Magistrate
- Bayer was a lawyer, and amateur astronomer.
- 1612, appointed legal advisor to city council of Augsburg at an annual salary of 500 gulden.
- 8. Patronage
- Type: City Magistrates
- 1603, dedicated his Uranometria to two leading citizens of Augsburg and received an honorarium of 150 gulden.
- 9. Technological Involvement
- Types: None
- 10. Scientific Societies
- Memberships: None
- Collaborated with Schiller (Ernst Zinner, Vierteljahrsschrift der astronomischen Gesellschaft, 72 (1937), 64-8.)
- Sources
- Franz Babinger, "Johannes Bayer, der Begruender der neuzeitlichen Sternbenennung," Archiv fuer die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und die Technik, 5 (1915), 108-113.
- Compiled by:
- Richard S. Westfall
- Department of History and Philosophy of Science
- Indiana University
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