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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- County of East Frisia
- Place of birth
- Esens
- Place of death
- Osteel
- Child
- Johannes Fabricius
- Occupation
- theologian
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Notable work
- Mira
- Field of work
- amateur astronomy
- Image
- Fabricius-Denkmal msu 2018-4872.jpg
- Number of children
- 8
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- date of birth
- 1564-03-09
- date of death
- 1617-05-07
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- David Fabricius
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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.