Sigismund Schwabe, known with his latin name Sigismundus Suevus (Freistadt, 1526–1596), was a German mathematician and Evangelical theologian.[1] He was also a musician and poet.[2]
Life edit
He was born in Freistadt, Silesia. A well known student of Melanchthon,[1][3] he studied in Reval (Tallinn) around 1550. He was preacher in Lubań, Silesia, and after 1586 priest in Breslau.[2]
His Arithmetica Historica ("Historical Arithmetic", 1593) was conceived to prepare for the Last Judgment by combining Biblical teaching and arithmetical knowledge.[1]
Works edit
- Cometen (in German). Görlitz: Ambrosius Fritsch. 1578.
- Arithmetica Historica (in German). Breslau: Georg Baumann. 1629.
External links edit
- "Schwabe, Sigismund". thesaurus.cerl.org.
References edit
- ^ a b c Eugene Weber (2011). Apocalypses. Random House. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-4464-7699-4.
- ^ a b "Schwabe, Sigismund". thesaurus.cerl.org. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ Robin Bruce Barnes (1988). Prophecy and Gnosis: Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation. Stanford University Press. pp. 170, 195. ISBN 978-0-8047-1405-1.
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