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Place of Birth: Barnarp, Jönköping County, Sweden
About Anders Spole
- Anders Spole (13 June 1630 – 1 August 1699) was a Swedish mathematician and astronomer.
- He was born at a farm in Målen, the son of blacksmith Per Andersson and his wife Gunilla Persdotter.
- At the age of twelve he started studying at Jönköpings skola and was sent to the University of Greifswald in 1652.
- After three years of studies he continued at other universities in Prussia and Saxony, until his return to Barnarp in 1655, where he started preaching in the local church.
- He continued to study mathematics at Uppsala University, while at the same time being a tutor baron Sjöblad's sons.
- In 1663, he became a master craftsman of fireworks and the arts of navigation.
- The following year he accompanied the young Sjöblads on their peregrination around Europe.When he returned in 1667, he was named professor in mathematics at the newly founded Lund University; in 1672 he became the principal of that university.
- He retained this position until 1676 when the university was dissolved because of the Scanian War.
- During this war he fought on the Swedish side, and he held ground at the fortress in Jönköping.
- He fought at the Battle of Landskrona in 1677.In 1679, he took up a professorship in astronomy at Uppsala University, and built an astronomical observatory in his home in central Uppsala.
- The building, along with all his instruments, was destroyed in the large city fire in Uppsala in 1702.
- In 1695, by the order of King Karl XI, he travelled to Torneå and Kengis together with Johannes Bilberg to study the midnight sun.Spole married Martha Lindelius, a distant relative of Carl von Linné, in 1669.
- Spole's sons were knighted in 1715 for their conduct during the war.
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