Christoph Grienberger, born in Hall in Tirol in 1561 and dead in 1636, was an Austrian Jesuit astronomer and mathematician who joined the order in 1580 and studied in Prague and Vienna. In 1612 he succeeded his tutor Christopher Clavius as professor of mathematics at the Collegio Romano. In 1610 he was one of the Collegio's mathematicians asked for an opinion on Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and he sympathised with Galileo's theory of motion while being asked to defend the Aristotelian view of the universe. Though he published only a thin volume of star charts and a set of trigonometric tables, he served as technical censor of all mathematical works by Jesuit authors and corrected many of them. The lunar crater Gruemberger is named after him.
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Bamberger, Banbergiera, Gamberger, Ghambergier, Granberger, Panberger) (2 July 1561 – 11 March 1636) was an Austrian Jesuit astronomer, after whom the crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named. == Biography == Born in Hall in Tirol, in 1580 Christoph
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He studied in Prague and Vienna, and subsequently succeeded his tutor, Christopher Clavius, as professor of mathematics at the Collegio Romano in 1612.
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He studied in Prague and Vienna, and subsequently succeeded his tutor, Christopher Clavius, as professor of mathematics at the Collegio Romano in 1612.
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He studied in Prague and Vienna, and subsequently succeeded his tutor, Christopher Clavius, as professor of mathematics at the Collegio Romano in 1612.
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Among his professors were the noted German Jesuit mathematicians, Christopher Clavius, Christoph Grienberger and Odo Van Maelcote.
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