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Michael Maestlin

1550 - 1631

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Michael Maestlin (also Mästlin, Möstlin, or Moestlin; 30 September 1550 – 26 October 1631) was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler. A student of Philipp Apian, Maestlin is recognized as the teacher who had the greatest influence on Kepler. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Maestlin has received more than 93,398 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Michael Maestlin is the 289th most popular mathematician (up from 359th in 2019), the 1,926th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,505th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Michael Maestlin ranks 289 out of 1,004. Before him are John Edensor Littlewood, Kunihiko Kodaira, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Marino Ghetaldi, Lorenzo Mascheroni, and Viktor Bunyakovsky. After him are Pavel Alexandrov, Helge von Koch, Issai Schur, William George Horner, Yi Xing, and Liu Xin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1550, Michael Maestlin ranks 18. Before him are Karin Månsdotter, Giorgio Basta, Do-Aklin, Jacobus Gallus, Damat Ibrahim Pasha, and Emilio de' Cavalieri. After him are False Dmitry III, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi, Orazio Vecchi, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and Marie Eleonore of Cleves. Among people deceased in 1631, Michael Maestlin ranks 9. Before him are John Smith, Constance of Austria, Willem Janszoon, Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, and Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. After him are Federico Borromeo, Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Katō Yoshiaki, Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Louis Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard, and Nicolò Contarini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michael Maestlin ranks 1,926 out of 7,253. Before him are Gustaf Gründgens (1899), Prince Konrad of Bavaria (1883), Otto von Lossow (1868), Barbara Sukowa (1950), Berthold, Duke of Merania (1153), and Friedrich Ebert Jr. (1894). After him are Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865), George, Duke of Bavaria (1455), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), and Henry III, Duke of Bavaria (940).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Michael Maestlin ranks 35. Before him are Edmund Landau (1877), Michael Stifel (1487), Andreas Osiander (1498), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800). After him are Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), Nicholas Mercator (1620), and Julius Plücker (1801).

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