Doppelmayr, Johan Gabriel

1. Dates

Born:

Died:

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan:

2. Father

Occupation: Merchant In Nurenberg

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: German

Career: German

Death: German

4. Education

Schooling: Altdorf, Halle, Utrecht, Leiden, Oxford

Secondary: began with tutors.

1689, entered Aegidien Gymnasium in Nuremberg.

1696, entered U Altdorf, studied jurisprudence, math, and physics. No mention of a degree.

1700, briefly attended U Halle.

Then gave up law, spent 2 years traveling and studying in Germany, Holland, and England, especially Utrecht, Leyden, Oxford, and London. I find no mention of a degree in all of this.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Lutheran, by assumption

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Astronomy, Math, Physics

Doppelmayr made no discoveries for which he is known. He published works that were very useful in disseminating scientific knowledge.

7. Means of Support

Primary: Academic

1704-death: professor of math at Aegidien Gymnasium in Nuremberg. The institution had been founded by Zwingli, but Nuremberg was a Lutheran city.

8. Patronage

Type: Unknown (But There Were No Appointments Like That

above without patronage)

9. Technological Involvement

Types: None

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: Academia Leopoldina, Berlin Academy, Russian Academy (St. Petersburg), Royal Society

Member of Academia Caesarea Leopoldina, Berlin Academy, St. Petersburg Academy, Royal Society of London.

Sources

1. Cantor, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 5, 344 - 345 -- only a little more about his education J. H. von Mädler, Geschichte der Himmelskunde, 1, (Brunswick, 1873), 129 -- Microprint Q111 . L2 #M31 -- nothing new J. G. Meusel, Lexikon der vom Jahr 1750 bis 1880 verstorbenen teutschen Schriftsteller (Leipzig, 1802 - 1816), 2-- ref room Z 2230 . M 58 -- primary and secondary bibliography Neue Deutsche Biographie, 4, 76

Not Available and Not Consulted

1. G.A.Will, Nürnbergisches Gelehrter Lexicon, 1 (Nuremberg, 1755).

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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