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Caspar Peucer ( 6 January 1525 - 25 September 1602 ) was a German Reformer , Physician , and Scholar . Peucer studied Mathematics , Astronomy , and Medicine at the University Of Wittenberg since 1540 . In 1543 , he became a lodger in the house of one of the most famous professors in Wittenberg , the theologian and Humanist Philipp Melanchthon , whose daughter Magdalena he married in 1550 . In 1554 , he became professor of mathematics at Wittenberg, and in 1560 professor of medicine, leading the Wittenberg faculty in that field. Until 1574 , he also served several times as Dean and Rector . In spite of his medical profession--in 1570 , he became even personal physician to the Elector of Saxony --he was, after the death of Melanchthon, one of the leading Protestants in Saxony. However, in 1574 Peucer was officially charged with Crypto-Calvinism in an inter- Lutheran fight for power and put in jail in the famed Königstein Fortress for twelve years. Released in 1586 , he went to the Duchy of Anhalt , where he became Councillor and personal physician of the Prince of Anhalt. He died in the capital of Dessau in 1602 . |