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David Fabricius

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German astronomer

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David Fabricius was a Danish author who lived from 1564 to 1617. He had eight children. His literary output includes four works, among which are *Fear Not*, *Halbwandler*, *Heart of the leader*, and *The Daily Seven*.

The author is referenced by 44 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Fear Not
  • Halbwandler
  • Heart of the leader
  • The Daily Seven

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
DK
Active from
1924-12-07
Active to
2020-07-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
6
Total plays
24

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Encyclopedic overview

David Fabricius (9 March 1564 – 7 May 1617) was a Frisian pastor who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius (1587–1615).

David Fabricius (Latinization of his proper name David Faber, or David Goldschmidt; possibly Hebrew) was born at Esens, studied at the University of Helmstedt starting in 1583 and served as pastor for small towns near his birthplace in Frisia (now northwest Germany and northeast Netherlands), at Resterhafe near Dornum in 1584 and at Osteel in 1603. As was common for Protestant ministers of the day, he dabbled in science: his particular interest was astronomy. Fabricius corresponded with astronomer Johannes Kepler.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “David Fabricius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.