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Wendelin [Vendelinus], Gottfried
- 1. Dates
- Born: Herck-la-Ville, Belgium, 6 June 1580
- Died: Ghent, 1667
- Dateinfo: Dates Certain
- Lifespan: 87
- 2. Father
- Occupation: No Information
- No information on financial status.
- 3. Nationality
- Birth: Herck-la-Ville, Belgium
- Career: Belgium
- Death: Ghent, Belgium
- 4. Education
- Schooling: Louvain; Orange, L.D.
- He went to school in Herck-la-Ville.
- 1595, he went to the Jesuit college at Tournai.
- c. 1598, he was in Louvain, probably attending lectures at the faculty of arts there. No B.A. is known.
- 1611, received J.D. from the University of Orange. (Although I am listing this, I seem also to remember that Orange was not a valid institution. Check this.)
- 5. Religion
- Affiliation: Catholic
- 1619, ordained a priest in Brussels.
- 6. Scientific Disciplines
- Primary: Astronomy
- 7. Means of Support
- Primary: Church Life
- Secondary: Schoolmastering, Patronage
- 1601, for a year he was the professor of Mathematics at Digne. (I am not aware of a university there; therefore, secondary level.) Afterwards he traveled extensively.
- 1604-11, he was tutor to the son of André d'Arnaud, seigneur de Miravail, lieutenant-general of the Senechal's court of Forealquier.
- He traveled more, then taught at the Latin school in Herck for a short period.
- 1619, he received the subdeaconry at Malines, and was ordained.
- 1620-32, curate of Geet-Bets.
- 1633-48, curate of Herck.
- 1648-58, he was an official at the cathedral in Tournai, then retired.
- 8. Patronage
- Types: Aristrocrat, Court Official, Eccesiastic Official
- His first patron would have been Andre d'Arnaud, see above.
- Archduchess Isabelle conferred on him a prebendary of the canonry of the collegiate church of Notre Dame of Conde.
- The bishop of Tournai gave him the position at the cathedral there.
- 9. Technological Involvement
- Type: Cartography
- He determined the latitude of Marseille and interested himself in the determination of longitudes made by Peiresc; he calculated the length of the Mediterranean independently from Peiresc's data.
- 10. Scientific Societies
- Memberships: None
- Connections: corresponded with Mersenne, Gassendi, and Constantijn Huygens.
- Sources
- Lucien Godeaux, Biographie nationale publiée par l'Académie royale de Belgique, 27 (1938), cols. 180-4.
- P. Humbert, "Les astronomes françaises de 1610 à 1667," Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques et archéologiques de Draguignan et du Var, 42 (1942), pp. 5-72.
- Compiled by:
- Richard S. Westfall
- Department of History and Philosophy of Science
- Indiana University
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