Johannes Engel (1453 to 1512), also known as Johannes Angelus, was a doctor, astronomer and astrologer from Aichach near Augsburg, in the Holy Roman Empire. He registered at the University of Ingolstadt in 1472, graduated Master of Arts in 1474 and lectured on Aristotle there in 1476. From 1489 to 1491 he worked as a proof-reader or editor for the Augsburg printer Erhard Ratdolt, and between 1492 and 1497 he studied medicine at Ingolstadt before practising medicine in Vienna, where he died. He published many almanacs, planetary tables and calendars, and his Astrolabium planum of 1488 was reprinted in Venice in 1494 and 1502. His editions of Abu Ma'shar, Regiomontanus and Guido Bonatti circulated astrological theory, and a short treatise on the plague in German was printed after his death in 1518.
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from Aichach, near Augsburg, which at that time was a Free Imperial City within the Holy Roman Empire
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Johannes Engel (2 March 1453-29 September 1512)
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from Aichach, near Augsburg, which at that time was a Free Imperial City within the Holy Roman Empire
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He practiced medicine in Vienna, and published numerous almanachs, planetary tables and calendars.
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