Background
He was born near Naumburg and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1733 from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on De viribus motricibus.
Astronomer mathematician university professor
He was born near Naumburg and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1733 from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on De viribus motricibus.
Leipzig University.
Later he became professor of mathematics at the same institution. Professor Heinsius may have been the first to publish an announcement about the return of Halley"s comet in 1759. He died in Leipzig. The crater Heinsius on the Moon is named after him.
Russian Academy of Sciences]
From 1736-1743 he taught in Saint St. Petersburg with Leonhard Euler and was a member of the Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.