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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
- R. Hoche, Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, 23, 340.
- 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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