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Michael Maestlin

1550 - 1631

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Michael Maestlin (German: [ˈmɛstliːn]; also Mästlin, Möstlin, or Moestlin; 30 September 1550 – 26 October 1631) was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler. A student of Philipp Apian, Maestlin is recognized as the teacher who had the greatest influence on Kepler. He is regarded as one of the most significant astronomers of the period between Copernicus and Kepler. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Maestlin is the 375th most popular mathematician (down from 289th in 2024), the 2,288th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,926th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michael Maestlin ranks 375 out of 1,004. Before him are Lars Hörmander, Zhu Shijie, Daina Taimiņa, Sergei Sobolev, Antoine Gombaud, and Vladimir Drinfeld. After him are László Lovász, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, John Milnor, Raymond Smullyan, Guillaume Postel, and Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1550, Michael Maestlin ranks 19. Before him are Karin Månsdotter, Giorgio Basta, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Jacobus Gallus, Emilio de' Cavalieri, and Chand Bibi. After him are False Dmitry III, Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Tang Xianzu, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Marie Eleonore of Cleves, and Francisco Sanches. Among people deceased in 1631, Michael Maestlin ranks 10. Before him are Constance of Austria, Willem Janszoon, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, and Federico Borromeo. After him are Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Katō Yoshiaki, Louis Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard, Nicolò Contarini, and Michael Drayton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michael Maestlin ranks 2,289 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1577), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), Hermann Abert (1871), Neidhart von Reuental (1180), Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809), and Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780). After him are Jordan of Saxony (1190), Klaus Allofs (1956), Max Morlock (1925), Friedrich Traun (1876), Fredrik Barth (1928), and Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1694).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Michael Maestlin ranks 42. Before him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Julius Plücker (1801), Felix Bernstein (1878), Andreas Osiander (1498), and Nicholas Mercator (1620). After him are Lothar Collatz (1910), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Helmut Hasse (1898), Thomas Fincke (1561), Johann Benedict Listing (1808), and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821).

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