Jakub Kresa

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Jakub Kresa (born July 19, 1648 in Smeschitz , Moravia ; † July 28, 1715 in Brno ; also Jakob or Jacobo Kresa ) was a Bohemian Jesuit , mathematician , theologian and at times the confessor of Charles VI. His broad education also included a number of languages: Hebrew, Greek, and Latin as dead, and Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese as living languages. He translated the works of Euclid into Spanish.

Life

Little is known about his life before he entered the Jesuit order at the age of 19. However, Kresa used the educational opportunities that the order offered him for diverse studies in the fields of theology, philosophy and mathematics, especially at the University of Prague.

1681 he became professor of Hebrew Language in Olomouc at the local University and taught there after his dissertation in mathematics in fact follow year, was until 1685 called as a mathematician at the University of Prague. His knowledge of the language brought him a call to the Jesuit College in Madrid (" Reales Estudios de San Isidro ") in 1686 , where he stayed for 15 years. In 1701 he was called back to Prague as a professor of "Controver theology" . In 1704 he left his homeland again and followed Charles VI. as confessor to Spain. Ten years later he returned to his homeland for retirement, where he died a year later in Brno.

A large donation, the interest of which was to be used to purchase mathematical and astronomical literature, went to the Clementinum in Prague and is still in the holdings of the Czech National Library, which is located in this building.

In 1699 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

Works

  • "Elementos geometricos de Evclides: Los seis primeros libros de los planos y los onzedo y dozeno de los solidos. Con algvnos selectos theoremas de Archimedes. Traducidos y explicados por el P. Jacobo Kresa. “ Francisco Foppens, Brussels 1689.
  • "Arithmetica Tyro-Brunensis. Curiosa varietate & observatione communi omnium fructui sed praeprimis Tyronibus mathematum utilis. “ Prague 1715.
  • "Analysis speciosa trigonometriae sphaericae." Prague 1720. (published posthumously)

literature

supporting documents

  1. ^ Siegmund Günther :  Kresa, Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 128.
  2. ↑ Vlasta Faltysová, Pavel Pohley (Edit.), Claudia Blum (ed.): "Handbook German historical book collections in Europe." Bad 1.1 Czech Republic. Prague. Part 1. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim, Zurich, New-York 1999. p. 56
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: letter K. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 6, 2020 (French).

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personal data
SURNAME Kresa, Jakub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kresa, Jacobo; Kresa Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian mathematician and Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1648
PLACE OF BIRTH Smržice
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1715
Place of death Brno