Andreas Osiander

Andreas Osiander (of its true name Hosemann), born the December 19th 1498 in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria - died in 1552 with Königsberg, Prussia, German reforming theologist.

Biography

Ordered priest (catholic) in 1520 with Nuremberg, it was one of the chiefs of the Protestant Réforme, supporting Martin Luther with the diet of Augsburg.

Being interested in mathematics, it dealt with publishing revolutionibus orbium coelestium of Nicolas Copernic in 1543. He wrote an anonymous foreword explaining why the heliocentric Système was only one mathematical instrument (thesis which defended in 1616 the cardinal Robert Bellarmin against Galileo).

It is Kepler which revealed at the century according to whether the author of the foreword were not Copernic but the theologist Lutheran.

He was also a friend of the mathematician Gerolamo Cardano and published his Ars magna .

He was then called in Eastern Prussia in 1549 and finishes his life like Pasteur and professor of university with Königsberg.

Work

Osiander was especially a theologist who opposed Philippe Melanchthon on the theological question of the justification.

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