Georg Henisch

Georg Henisch (1549–1618) was a physician, humanist, educator, astronomer, mathematician and a professor of St. Ann Gymnasium in Augsburg, Germany, in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

In 1575 he was hired by an outstanding educator, Hieronymus Wolf, then-rector of St Ann Gymnasium in Augsburg, to teach rhetoric, philosophy, geography and astronomy on one year's probation.

He is the author of more than thirty publications, including translations of Hesiod's poetry and the writings of the Cappadocian physician Arateus retained by the town library in Augsburg, Germany.

Together with a fellow teacher, Simon Fabricus, he attempted to establish a free public university associated with St Ann Gymnasium, open to anyone who wished to learn.

Only one of his books, The Principles of Geometry, Astronomie, and Geographie, was translated into English by Francis Cooke during his lifetime and published in London in 1591.