Involvement in some student affair in violation of the university regulations caused him to be expelled in 1607, and he began five years of extensive travel interrupted by periods of residence and study in Tübingen and employment as a private tutor.Īmong the teachers who especially influenced Andreae were two who had taught Kepler: the theologian Matthias Hafenreffer and the mathematician Michael Maestlin. in 1605, and then officially took up the study of theology, without abandoning his earlier interests. He pursued these interests at the university, where he found an intellectual milieu very similar to the one Kepler had entered in 1589: one characterized by Lutheran orthodoxy on the one hand and by growing interest in the book of nature and nature mysticism on the other. When he entered Tübingen University in 1601, he already had an avid interest in astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, music, and painting, and he had read Josephus, Livy, and Erasmus, as well as Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. Under the influence of his father and following the custom of the time, he was introduced to wide-ranging studies of classical authors and the secrets of nature. In poor health as a child, Andreae received his early education at home. She was also interested in the study of nature, and in her later years gained the position of court apothecary. After the father’s death in 1601, Andreae’s mother, Maria Moser Andreae, moved the family to Tübingen. Andreae’s father, Johann, was a Lutheran minister, but seems to have neglected both his family and the ministry to pursue his interest in alchemy. The son of a smith, he has been called the Luther of Württemberg, and was the chief framer of the Formula of Concord (1577).
Stuttgart, Württemberg, 27 June 1654), theology, Christian learning.Īndreae’s grandfather, Jacob Andreae, was professor of theology and chancellor of Tübingen University. Herrenberg, Württemberg, 17 August 1586 d.
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