SETHUS See also:

• SETHUS CALVISIUS (1556-1615)

CALVISIUS (1556-1615)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German chronologer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of a See also:

• PEASANT (O. Fr. paysant, Mod. paysan; Lat. pagensis, belonging to the pagus or country; cf. " pagan ")

peasant See also:

• FAMILY

family at Gorschleben in Thuringia on the 21st of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1556 . By the exercise of his musical talents he earned See also:

• MONEY

money enough for the start, at Helmstadt, of an university career, which the aid of a wealthy See also:

• PATRON

patron enabled him to continue at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig . He became director of the See also:

• MUSIC

music-school at Pforten in 1572, was transferred to Leipzig in the same capacity in 1594, and retained this See also:

• POST

post until his See also:

• DEATH

death on the 24th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1615, despite the offers successively made to him of mathematical professorships at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort and See also:

• WITTENBERG

Wittenberg . In his See also:

• OPUS ('O7rois)

Opus Chronologicum (Leipzig, 16o5, 7th ed . 1685) he expounded a See also:

• SYSTEM

system based on the records of nearly 300 eclipses . An ingenious, though ineffective, proposal for the reform of the See also:

• CALENDAR

calendar was put forward in his Elenchus Calendarii Gregoriani (Frankfort, 1612); and he published a See also:

• BOOK

book on music, Melodiae condendae ratio (See also:

• ERFURT

Erfurt, 1592), still See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth See also:

• READING

reading . For details see V . Schmuck's Leichenrede (1615); J . Bertuch's Chronicon Portense (1739); F . W . E . Rost's ()ratio ad renovendam S .

Calvisii memoriam (1805); J G . See also:

• STALLBAUM, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1793-1861)

Stallbaum's Nachrichten fiber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Cantoren an der Thomasschule (1842) ; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie; See also:

• POGGENDORFF, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1796-1877)

Poggendorff's Biog.-Litterarisches Handwerterbuch .