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Brudzewski, Albertus

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Albertus Blar de Brudzewo; Brudzewski, Albert

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 hidden to lay eyes, he knew how to set...

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  • Albertus de Brudzewo (1495 and 1495). Commentarius in theoricas planetarum Georgii Purbachii. Mailand: U. Scinzenzeller.

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  • Birkenmajer, Ludwig Antoni (1924). Stromata Copernicana. Cracow, pp. 83–103.

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  • Prowe, Leopold (1883). Nicolaus Coppernicus. Vol. 1. Berlin.

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  1. Universität Landau, Landau in der Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

    Jürgen Hamel

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

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Hamel, J. (2014). Brudzewski, Albertus. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9028

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