Georg Ignaz von Metzburg
Georg Ignaz von Metzburg (born June 24, 1735 in Graz , † May 3, 1798 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mathematician and geometer.
Life
Georg Ignaz, Freiherr von Metzburg , came from a family in Upper Austria that had settled in Styria . He was a son of the Styrian Land Law Secretary Christoph Augustin Freiherr von Metzburg from his marriage to Maria Katharina von Hitzelberg. He entered the Society of Jesus on October 17, 1751 in Vienna . After his ordination in 1764, he was assigned to the director of the Vienna observatory as an assistant. On February 7, 1772, he received his doctorate in philosophy, and as a geometer he supported Joseph Liesganig in surveying eastern Galicia , which was then part of Austria. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order, he returned to Vienna, where he was appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Vienna in 1774 as the successor to Joseph Walcher , which he held until his death. On December 5, 1788 he became dean of the philosophical faculty. A few days before his death he was still in charge of the surveying of western Galicia, which had just come to Austria. He also began to make the map, which Franz Triesnecker completed.
He died in Vienna in 1798. His large library was inherited by the children of his brother Franz Leopold von Metzburg, who had died as consul in Jassy on the Moldau .
Works
- Helshami Physica experimentalis Newtoniana ex anglico in latinum versa, Vindobonae 1769
- Elementa Arithmeticae regularis seu vulgaris, ibid. 1769 (German: Small self-teaching arithmetic booklet, Vienna 1772, Augsburg 1773)
- Praxis geometrica ex principiis Geometriae deducta, ibid. 1777,
- Institutiones mathematicae. Tomus I – VII, ibid. 1775–1790
- Institutiones mathematicae ad usum tironum, Editio 4, ibid. 1807 (posthumous)
- Post-charter of Georg Ignaz von Metzburg , 1782
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Metzburg, Georg Ignaz Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, p. 64 ( digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metzburg, Georg Ignaz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian mathematician and geometer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1735 or June 24, 1735 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1798 |
| Place of death | Vienna |