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Sethus Calvisius, originally
Seth Kalwitz (b.
February 21,
1556 in
Gorsleben,
Germany; d.
November 24,
1615 in
Leipzig) was a German
music theorist, composer,
chronologer,
astronomer, and teacher of the late
Renaissance.
He was born of a peasant family at Gorsleben in
Thuringia. By the exercise of his musical talents he earned money enough for the start, at
Helmstedt, of a university career, which the aid of a wealthy patron enabled him to continue at Leipzig. He became director of the music-school at
Pforten in
1572, was transferred to Leipzig in the same capacity in
1594, and retained this post until his death on the 24th of November 1615, despite the offers successively made to him of mathematical professorships at
Frankfurt and
Wittenberg. In his
Opus Chronologicum (Leipzig, 1605, 7th ed. 1685) he expounded a system based on the records of nearly 300
eclipses. An ingenious, though ineffective, proposal for the reform of the
calendar was put forward in his
Elenchus Calendarii Gregoriani (Frankfurt, 1612); and he published a book on
music,
Melodiae condendae ratio (
Erfurt, 1592).
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