{{Short description|German librarian, mathematician}} '''Tilemann Stella''' (c. 1525-1589) was a German mathematician.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz10881.html?language=en|title=Stella, Tillmann - Deutsche Biographie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.bnf.fr/15376436/tilemann_stella/|title=Tilemann Stella (1525-1589)}}</ref>
==Biography== thumb|right|Zweibruecken on a map from 1564 by Tilemann Stella Tilemann was born as Tilemann Stoltz in 1525 in Siegen.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.brunnenpfad-hangard.de/index.php?id=948|title=Brunnenpfad Hangard - Premiumwanderweg|first=Brunnenpfad|last=Hangard}}</ref> He studied at the Latin school in Siegen before attending the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, the University of Marburg, and the University of Cologne.<ref name="auto1"/> He was taught by mathematicians such as Johannes Dryander and Erasmus Reinhold.<ref name="auto"/> Stella became a close student of Philipp Melanchthon, who entrusted him with creating cartographic representations for biblical studies. He created maps of the Holy Land, Exodus route, and Germany, with plans for further maps that were never completed.<ref name="auto"/>
In 1552, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg started funding his work.<ref name="auto"/> He began mapping Mecklenburg and made a celestial globe in 1555.<ref name="auto"/> In 1560, he was employed as a court mathematician and librarian in Schwerin.<ref name="auto"/> He documented his travels with Duke Johann Albrecht and created further maps in Mecklenburg, including planning and supervising the construction of a canal between Dömitz and Wismar.<ref name="auto"/> He also charted Mansfeld and Luxembourg for the Counts of Mansfeld and created maps for Duke Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken.<ref name="auto"/>
Following Duke Johann Albrecht's death in 1576, Stella's connection with Mecklenburg weakened, and he worked for the courts of Saxony and Brandenburg-Ansbach.<ref name="auto"/> Around 1582, he entered the service of Duke John I of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, becoming the head of the court library and planning a canal between the Rhine and Saar. Stella died in 1589, and his estate was eventually sold to the "Bibliotheca Bipontina."<ref name="auto"/>
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