Matthias Bernegger

Matthias Bernegger (Latin: Bernegerus, also Matthew;[1] born 8 February 1582 in Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, died 5 February 1640 in Strasbourg) was a German philologist, astronomer, university professor and writer of Latin works.

Bernegger's Protestant family was, like other so called exulanten, expelled from Habsburg monarchy during the Counter-Reformation.

Already in 1612,[2] Bernegger had translated a 1606 Italian-language work of Galileo Galilei's into Latin, as Tractatus de proportionum instrumento.

[3] In 1632, via their mutual friend Élie Diodati, Galilei asked Bernegger to translate his Italian-language Dialogo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems) into Latin.

Since 1607, Bernegger taught, like his colleague Caspar Brülow (1585–1627), at the Protestant Gymnasium, before he was called in 1616 to the Straßburg Academy which was raised in 1621 to a university.