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CALVISIUS, SETHUS (1556-1615)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 78 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CALVISIUS, SETHUS (1556-1615) , German chronologer, was born of a
peasant
  family at Gorschleben in Thuringia on the 21st of
February
  1556. By the exercise of his musical talents he earned money enough for the start, at Helmstadt, of an university career, which the aid of a wealthy
patron
  enabled him to continue at
Leipzig
 . He became director of the music-school at Pforten in 1572, was transferred to
Leipzig
  in the same capacity in 1594, and retained this post until his death on the 24th of November 1615, despite the offers successively made to him of mathematical professorships at
Frankfort
  and Wittenberg . In his
Opus
  Chronologicum (Leipzig, 16o5, 7th ed. 1685) he expounded a
system
  based on the records of nearly 300 eclipses. An ingenious, though ineffective, proposal for the reform of the calendar was put forward in his Elenchus Calendarii Gregoriani (
Frankfort
 , 1612); and he published a book on music, Melodiae condendae ratio (
Erfurt
 , 1592), still worth
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. Stallbaum's Nachrichten fiber die Cantoren an der Thomasschule (1842) ; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie;
Poggendorff
 's Biog.-Litterarisches Handwerterbuch.


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