scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1284307

Publication date 3 December 2000

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

The fates of many outstanding mathematicians of the 16th century are not known. The possibility of opening ones own German letters and mathematics school was by no means granted to all. There prevailed, especially in Nuremberg, a surplus of very qualified mathematicians and there remained nothing for them to do other than to look elsewhere for their earnings. In this way, they contributed to the good reputation of educators from Nuremberg and mathematicians in distant lands. Here, Caspar Hützler from Nuremberg will be addressed, who lived in the first half of the 16th century. Hützler was presumably born about 1500 in Nuremberg, studied in Leipzig from 1517 to 1519 and was enrolled at the university of Wittenberg in 1521. He must have been living in Lübeck later because his mathematics book had been printed there in three editions. Furthermore, the educator and mathematician Franz Brasser from Lübeck quotes in his mathematics book of 1552, ``anno 48 doerches a guden Fründt tho maken vp gegeuen. In his mathematics books Hützler called himself a ``lover of the free arts. More about Hützler is not known at the present. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0855.00013].

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