Bartsch to Müller, 9/19 January 1630
Jacob Bartsch, “Bartsch to Müller, 9/19 January 1630,” Nova Kepleriana 4, January 19, 1630, 97–98, transcribed in Plain Old Text, https://sources.vjbe.net/stable/cha7k.
Nova Kepleriana 4 19 Jan, 1630, p. 97–98 Summary
Part of Die Keplerbriefe auf der Nationalbibliothek und auf der Sternwarte in Paris
From Strasbourg, Bartsch reports that Kepler's daughter Susanna is now living in Bernegger's house awaiting the wedding, that he has been promised a chair of mathematics, and that he will take his medical doctorate and marry at the end of February.
Source: Jacob Bartsch's letter to Philipp Müller written at Strasbourg on 9/19 January 1630, on his coming marriage to Kepler's daughter Susanna, the promise of a chair of mathematics at Strasbourg, and his medical doctorate. The original is in the Bibliothèque de l'Observatoire, Paris (B, 1, 9; 89, 10. D. 4). Printed in extracts in Nova Kepleriana 4, ed. Walther von Dyck and Max Caspar, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Math.-naturw. Abteilung 31, no. 1 (Munich, 1927), 97–98.
Transcribed from: the page images of the 1927 printing.
Only the Latin is given; the editors’ German summary and notes are left out. The 1927 edition prints only extracts. Each paragraph below is one of its extracts, and the omission marks (…) are the editors’. Spaced type, which the editors used for emphasis, is given in italics. Square brackets are the editors’: they expand abbreviations, and [!] is their mark.
… Me meumque statum quod attinet, is quoad matrimonialia optime se habet. Princeps enim acceptis a domino parente litteris, proprio tabellario tramissis, jam virginem mihi sacram dimisit, quae jam hic vivit in aedibus Berneggerianis, expectans mecum magno cum desiderio responsorias alteras domo, ex quibus de nuptiarum loco et tempore certi aliquid concludendum. Optime etiam sese habet, quoad studia mea mathematica. Non enim te celare possum, quod superiori anno ab Academiae Ephoris, Scholarchis, Rectore et Vicariis certa successionis spes in Prof[essuram] Math[ematicam] facta, interimque reditus ad meos, et cum domino parente conversationis fructus ad tempus concessus. Intra paucos dies attestatio publico Academiae sigillo munita, jussu Dnn. Scholarcharum dabitur. Non tamen ego ita obligor, ut si meliorem aut commodiorem locum offerat Deus, hunc necessario relinquere cogar. Sunt quidem et hic nonnulli, qui extraneum inquilino praeferendum nefas ducunt. Verum plura vota concludunt. Quoad studia medica dubius [!] est.
Optarem quidem sine gradu nuptias celebrare; suasu tamen et hortatu instanti Dn. Berneggeri, Viri optimi, optime mihi faventis, vix eum relinquere potero, propter causas aliquot privatas, statum hujus urbis et Academiae sponsaeque potissimum respicientes. Quapropter si non aliquid aliud praecipient responsoriae, quas singulis diebus domo expectamus, circa finem Februarii actus promotionis et nuptiarum hic ut instituatur laboramus, quem suo tempore certius significabo. …