Johannes Kepler(12/27/1571 - 11/15/1630) was a German Astronomer, Mathematician, and Astrologer who lived in Weil der Stadt, Württemberg until he was an adult. While Kepler was a child he showed a very evident talent for mathematics. He was given a scholarship to the University of Tübingen to study for the Lutheran ministry. Kepler then became a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, Austria. But Kepler was soon forced from his position due to a counter reformation and he became the assistant of Tycho Brahe, an Astronomer, who later died in 1601 and Kepler was given his position. He then was forced to move around the region due to the Thirty-Years War. Kepler also defended heliocentrism and became a Copernican during this time.
