Fleischer, Johannes

1. Dates

Born: Breslau, 29 Mar 1539

Died: Breslau, 4 Mar 1593

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 54

2. Father

Occupation: Unknown

He was born into a "well to do" family. I could find nothing else out.

3. Nationality

Birth: Breslau, Germany

Career: Breslau, Germany

Death: Breslau, Germany

4. Education

Schooling: Wittenberg, M.A., D.D.

Attended the Goldberg Gymnasium near Breslau.

1557, matriculated at the University of Wittenberg. He received a M.A., and a theology doctorate in 1589.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Lutheran

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Optics

7. Means of Support

Primary: Church Life

Secondary: Schoolmastering, Government

1568-1569, taught arts and languages at Goldberg Gymnasium, but fled because of plague.

1572, he became the noon preacher at St. Elizabeth's in Breslau, and was a professor at the Gymnasium attached to the church.

1583, he became the minister at St. Maria Magdalena, Breslau.

1589, inspector of the churches and schools of Breslau.

The D.S.B. describes a "series of ecclesiastical positions at St. Maria Magdalena and St. Elizabeth's." Neither the position of minister at St. Maria nor the inspectorship was mentioned there, but I can find no others.

8. Patronage

Type: None

9. Technological Involvement

Types: None

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Sources

1. Christian Gottlob Joecher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon (Leipzig, 1750-1751; repr., Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1960), 2, 636.

Not Available and Not Consulted

1. Gustav Bauch, Valentine Trozendorf und die Goldberger Schule (Berlin, 1921), 235-237.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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