He was born on December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Württemberg.
He was a sickly child who suffered from boils, headaches, myopia, skin infections, fevers and stomach disorders and gallbladder. With four years, almost she succumbed to the ravages of smallpox.
He studied theology and classics at the University of Tubingen. He had as a math teacher Michael Maestlin supporter of the heliocentric theory of planetary motion first developed by Nicolaus Copernicus.
Johannes Kepler died on November 15, 1630 in Regensburg. He wrote this epitaph for his tombstone: "I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests".
