There, he was considered a candidate for the succession to Georg Joachim Rheticus, but Erasmus Flock (1514–1568), another scholar from Nuremberg was appointed Professor.
In 1543 Schreiber travelled to Italy with Valerius Cordus, then went to study in Paris, where he died in 1547.
In an almanac by Johann Stöffler (1452–1543) and Jacob Pflaum, he had noted weather observations made in Saxony.
In Schreiber's book, Kepler found a note attributing the authorship of the anonymous preface to Osiander.
[2][3] Osiander had adjusted the preface written by the Catholic Church canon Copernicus enough to be acceptable at Protestant Nuremberg, as well as having kept it off the Papal forbidden list (until 1620).