Neander, Michael

1. Dates

Born: Joachimsthal, Bohemia, 3 Apr 1529

Died: Jena, 23 Oct 1581

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 52

2. Father

Occupation: Unknown

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: Joachimsthal, Bohemia

Career: Jena, Germany

Death: Jena, Germany

4. Education

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

University of Wittenberg. B.A., 1549. M.A., 1550.

University of Jena. M.D., 1558.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Lutheran

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Mathematics, Medicine

Subordinate: Astronomy

7. Means of Support

Primary: Academia

Secondary: Schoolmastering

1551-8, taught in the hohe Schule in Jena.

1558, when the school became a new Protestant university, he became a professor in the faculty of arts.

1560-81, professor of medicine, University of Jena.

8. Patronage

Type: Unknown

No university appointment was free of patronage.

9. Technological Involvement

Type: None

There is no evidence that he practiced medicine, though in honesty I find it almost impossible to doubt.

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Sources

1. R. Hoche, Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, 23, 340.
2. Jöcher, Christian Gottlob Joecher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexicon (Leipzig, 1750-1751; repr., Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1960), 3, 840. Johann Christoph Adelung, Forsetzungen und Ergaenzungen zu Christian Gottlieb Joechers allgemeinem Gelehrten-Lexicon (Leipzig, 1784-1897; repr. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1960), 5, 429.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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