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CALVISIUS, SETHUS (1556-1615)

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

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