- First name
- Christoph
- Last name
- Clavius
- Date of Birth
- 1537
- Date of Death
- 1612
- Born in
- Bamberg
- Died in
- Rome
The Jesuit Christoph Clavius was an eminent, traditional mathematician who was held in high esteem by most scholars of his time including Galileo Galilei. Clavius’s reputation primarily rests upon the replacement (1582) of the old Julian calendar—accepting an accumulated error of ten days—by the Gregorian calendar, now the internationally accepted civil calendar. His Opera mathematica and Euclides elementorum were reprinted in several editions and translations. See: DSB, vol. 3, pp. 311–2; Lattis, 1994; DBI. His works are not listed in the inventory of Spinoza’s private library.
Annotations
Alias: Christoph Schlüsse.