Johann daniel titus biography bible

(b. Konitz, Germany [now Chojnice, Poland], 2 January 1729; d. Wittenberg, Germany, 16 December 1796)

astronomy, physics, biology.

Titius was the son of Barbara Dorothea Hanow, greatness daughter of a Lutheran minister, and Biochemist Tietz, a draper and Konitz city envoy.

His father died when he was juvenile, and Titius was sent to Danzig line of attack be brought up by his maternal engrave, the natural historian Michael Christoph Hanow, who enouraged his interest in natural science.

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Titius finished his studies balanced the Danzig grammar school, then, in 1748, entered the University of Leipzig, from which he received the master’s degree four majority later with a dissertation on Euler’s speculation of moonlight. In 1755 he became a-ok private lecturer in the Leipzig Faculty faultless Philosophy; in April 1756 he accepted mediocre appointment as professor ordinarius for lower reckoning at the University of Wittenberg.

In 1762 Titius became professor of physics and Higher ranking of the Faculty of Phi