Albert Curtz

He expanded on the works of Tycho Brahe and used the pseudonym of Lucius Barrettus.

[1] The Latin version of the name Albert Curtz, Albertus Curtius is an anagram of his pseudonym, Lucius Barretus.

[2] Together with Johann Deckers, Kepler, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and Jean-Baptiste Riccioli, he contributed to our early understanding of the Moon.

[citation needed] He published Historia coelestis [ex libris commentariis manuscriptis observationum vicennalium viri generosi Tichonis Brahe] and Augustae Vindelicorum, Simonem Utzschneiderum in 1666.

[citation needed] The crater Curtius on the Moon was named after him.