Sigismund Schwabe, known by his Latin name Sigismundus Suevus, born at Freistadt in Silesia in 1526 and dead in 1596, was a German mathematician and Evangelical theologian who was also a musician and poet. A well-known student of Melanchthon, he studied in Reval, now Tallinn, around 1550, was a preacher in Lubań in Silesia and after 1586 a priest in Breslau. His Arithmetica Historica of 1593, written in German, was conceived to prepare readers for the Last Judgment by combining Biblical teaching with arithmetical knowledge. His works also include a book on comets, Cometen, printed at Görlitz by Ambrosius Fritsch in 1578.
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Sigismund Schwabe, known by his Latin name Sigismundus Suevus (Freistadt, 1526–1596), was a German mathematician and Evangelical theologian.
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Sigismund Schwabe, known by his Latin name Sigismundus Suevus (Freistadt, 1526-1596), was a German mathematician and Evangelical theologian.
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Sigismund Schwabe, known by his Latin name Sigismundus Suevus (Freistadt, 1526-1596), was a German mathematician and Evangelical theologian.
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Sigismund Schwabe, known by his Latin name Sigismundus Suevus (Freistadt, 1526-1596), was a German mathematician and Evangelical theologian.
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Sigismund Schwabe, known by his Latin name Sigismundus Suevus (Freistadt, 1526-1596), was a German mathematician and Evangelical theologian.
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