Bernhard Grant

Bernhard Grant (baptismal name Alexander Grant * 1725 home in Strathaven , Scotland ; † 4. December 1796 in Regensburg ) was a in Germany acting clergyman and mathematician Scottish descent.

Life

Bernhard Grant entered the Benedictine order early on and moved to Germany. As a youth he came to the seminary in Regensburg in October 1739. In 1746 he made his profession and entered the priesthood around 1750. From 1751 to 1781 he worked as a professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Erfurt . He has authored several textbooks in the field of science and mathematics:

• Mathematical lessons from arithmetic , geometry and trigonometry , Erfurt 1756; Frankfurt 1765; Erfurt 1774
• Elementa philosophiae , Erfurt 1762
• Praelectiones encyclopaedicae in physicam experimentalem et historiam naturalem , Erfurt 1770
• Encyclopaedic lessons on natural science and natural history , Gotha 1779

These writings were very short and clear and were sometimes used as textbooks in school lessons, but later had to give way to newer and sometimes better manuals.

In 1779 Grant was appointed prior of the Schottenkloster St. Jakob in Erfurt . From 1781 he lived again in Regensburg, where he worked as director of the seminar until 1794 and taught philosophy . He also renewed the mathematical museum. From 1795 he was so sick that he mostly had to lie in bed. He died in late 1796 at the age of 71.

literature

• Philipp H. Külb : Grant (Bernhard) . In: Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , 1st Section, Vol. 88 (1868), p. 3 f.

Web links

• Hans-Joachim Genge: Bernhard Grant , in: Totenroteln from the Regensburg Schottenkloster St. Jakob in the archive of the Archabbey of St. Peter in Salzburg , p. 157 f. ( PDF )