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Born Brudzewo, Poland, 1446
Died Vilnius, (Lithuania), 1497
Albert Brudzewski lectured on planetary motions at the University of Cracow, where Nicolaus Copernicus may have studied with him.
Brudzewski studied in Cracow, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1470 and his master's in 1474. Soon after, he was granted a professorship at that university, a position in which he regularly gave lectures on various subjects in physics and astronomy. Subsequently, he changed to theology, obtained his baccalaureate in 1490, and went to Vilnius as secretary for Prince Alexander of Lithuania, who later became the King of Poland.
Brudzewski was a methodical, skillful, and effective lecturer. The humanist Philipp Callimachus wrote in a letter: “Everything created by the keen perceptions of Euclides and Ptolemaeus, [Brudzewski] made a part of his intellectual property. All that remained deeply...
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Albertus de Brudzewo (1495 and 1495). Commentarius in theoricas planetarum Georgii Purbachii. Mailand: U. Scinzenzeller.
Birkenmajer, Ludwig Antoni (1924). Stromata Copernicana. Cracow, pp. 83–103.
Prowe, Leopold (1883). Nicolaus Coppernicus. Vol. 1. Berlin.
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Hamel, J. (2007). Brudzewski, Albertus de. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_212
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