Background
Schneegass was born in 1546 in the village of Bufleben, north of Gotha.
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Schneegass was born in 1546 in the village of Bufleben, north of Gotha.
He attended Handelsschule (trade school) in Gotha and studied at the University of Jena from 1565, mainly with Cyriacus Lindemann.
He came from a peasant family and experienced a youth shaped by military turmoil during the Smalcaldic War, with the siege of Gotha by the Elector Augustus of Saxony. At the same time he held the post of superintendent of the Weimar adjuncts. Schneegass died in Friedrichroda.