Caspar Peucer (1525 to 1602) was a German reformer, physician and scholar of Sorbian origin, born in Bautzen and died in Dessau. After a Protestant grammar school in his home town and the Latin school of Valentin Trotzendorf he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in March 1543 and took his master degree in September 1545. He soon became a professor there, replacing Erasmus Reinhold after his death in 1553, and with Philipp Melanchthon, whose daughter Magdalena became his first wife, he was one of the main promoters of the astrological programme at Wittenberg. He was later accused of a Calvinist plot and arrested in Wittenberg on 1 April 1574, when his works were searched and he had to explain his religious and political ties before the Dresden Consistory.
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