Andreas Cellarius

Andreas Cellarius studied at Heidelberg University. The recorded working language is Latin. The field of work recorded is astronomy. Positions recorded include rector. Work by Andreas Cellarius is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Het Scheepvaartmuseum and Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.

Cellarius was born around 1596 in Neuhausen, near Worms. His family name was originally Keller, which he later Latinized to Cellarius. He was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622, when the city came into Catholic hands. His activities during this period are unclear, but based on his later works it is conjectured that he spent time in Poland where he may have worked as a military engineer. In 1625 he married Catharina Eltemans in Amsterdam. After a brief period in The Hague, the family later settled in Hoorn, where Cellarius remained for the rest of his life.

Cellarius worked as a schoolmaster in Amsterdam before relocating to Hoorn, north of Amsterdam, where he was appointed rector of the Latin School in 1637. He remained rector in Hoorn for the rest of his life, and all of his known scholarly works were produced during his years there.

Cellarius is best known for his celestial atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica, first published in 1660 (with a second edition in 1661) by the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius. The atlas was conceived as the historical introduction to a planned two-part work on cosmography, although the second volume was never published.