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Georg Tannstetter (April 1482 – 26 March 1535), also called Georgius Collimitius, was a humanist teaching at the University of Vienna. He was a medical doctor, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, and the personal physician of the emperors Maximilian I and Ferdinand I. He also wrote under the pseudonym of "Lycoripensis".[1] His Latin name "Collimitius" is derived from limes meaning "border" and is a reference to his birth town: "Rain" is a German word for border or boundary.

Born in Rain am Lech in the Duchy of Bavaria, he studied in Ingolstadt. In 1503, he followed a call of Conrad Celtis to the University of Vienna, where he taught mathematics. He soon became a leading figure amongst the humanists in Vienna. In 1510, he became the personal physician of emperor Maximilian I, who would six years later ennoble him with the predicate "von Thanau".

He travelled with his student Joachim Vadian to Buda in 1518. After his earlier work in c. 1527 he edited a map of Hungary, today known as Tabula Hungariae, from the manuscript of Lazarus Secretarius, a Hungarian clerk. The map was published by Johannes Cuspinianus, printed 1528 in Ingolstadt by Petrus Apianus; its unique copy is in the National Library of Hungary. It is generally praised for its details (c. 1300 settlements) and the relative accuracy of the distances between the settlements. It was one of the first regional maps, included a scale but the manuscript was seriously reshaped, so it is uneasy to recognize the geography of Hungary. Tannstetter is also considered a pioneer of the history of science with his work Viri Mathematici, containing biographies of mathematicians at the University of Vienna from the 15th century.

In 1530, he moved to Ferdinand's court at Innsbruck, where he died five years later.

Selected works

• Librum consolatorium contra opiniones de diluvio et aliis horrendis periculis anni 1523, Vienna 1523. A tract to counter the Flood hysteria of that year.
• Viri Mathematici
• Tabula Hungarie ad quatuor latera, The Lazarus map of Hungary. Ingolstadt 1528.
• Artificium De Applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam..., 1531.

References

• Hartfelder, Karl (1894), "Georg Tannstetter", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), vol. 37, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 388–389
• Grimm, Heinrich (1957), "Collimitius, Georgius", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 3, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 322–323
• Collimitius at the Encyclopedia of Austria.
• Georg Tannstetter.
• Tannstetter, Collimitius Georg.

Further reading

• Graf-Stuhlhofer, F: Humanismus zwischen Hof und Universität. Georg Tannstetter (Collimitus) und sein wissenschaftliches Umfeld im Wien des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts., University of Vienna, 1996; 212 pages. ISBN 3-85114-256-X. In German.

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[de] Georg Tannstetter

Georg Tannstetter, Humanistenname Collimitius (* Mitte April 1482 in Rain; † 27. März 1535 in Innsbruck), war ein deutsch-österreichischer Humanist, Astronom, Astrologe und Mediziner. Er war Professor für angewandte Mathematik an der Universität Wien, wo Peter Apian und Joachim Vadian zu seinen Schülern gehörten. Seine Darstellung der Geschichte der Wiener Astronomen und Mathematiker (Viri Mathematici, 1514) ist ein früher Ansatz von Naturwissenschaftsgeschichte. Auch sein Ansatz zu einer empirischen Astrologie (Libellus consolatorius, 1523) war damals noch ungewöhnlich. Gemeinsam mit einem Schüler entwarf er eine Ungarnkarte (Tabula Hungarie, 1528), die zum Weltdokumentenerbe gehört. Er war königlicher Leibarzt im Dienst mehrerer habsburgischer Regenten. 1531 wurde er geadelt.

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- [en] Georg Tannstetter

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[it] Georg Tannstetter

Georg Tannstetter (Rain, aprile 1482 – Innsbruck, 27 marzo 1535) è stato un umanista, astrologo, astronomo medico e matematico tedesco.

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[ru] Таннштеттер, Георг

Георг Таннштеттер (Георг Германский, ок. 1480 — ок. 1530) — математик и астроном, родился в Райне-на-Лехе в Баварии.

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