Jan Śniadecki

Jan Śniadecki (1756–1830) by Jan Rustem

Jan Śniadecki (born August 29, 1756 in Żnin , Poland , † November 9, 1830 in Jašiūnai near Vilnius ), brother of the chemist Jędrzej Śniadecki , was a Polish mathematician and astronomer .

After attending school in Trzemeszno, Śniadecki studied mathematics and physics at the Lubrański Academy and the University of Kraków and continued his education abroad from 1778 to 1781, including in Paris . He later became a professor of mathematics in Cracow, and from 1803 in Vilnius. From 1807 to 1815 he was the rector of Vilnius University . In 1815 he went into retirement.

In addition to astronomical and mathematical treatises, Śniadecki wrote a spherical trigonometry (1807; German von Feldt, Leipzig 1828). In philosophy he advocated English empiricism , against German philosophy and especially against Kant . His rectorate speeches, several biographies, for example about Nicolaus Copernicus and Hugo Kołłątaj , show him as a strict purist and opponent of all romanticism .

In his honor the asteroid (1262) Sniadeckia was named after him.

Works

• "Rachunku algebraicznego teoria" (1783)
• "Geografia, czyli opisanie matematyczne i fizyczne ziemi" (1804)
• "O Koperniku" ( About Nicolaus Copernicus , biography, 1802)
  • “Discours sur Nicolas Copernic”, 1818
  • “Discours sur Nicolas Kopernik”, 1820 [Jean Sniadecki].
  • “Di Niccolò Copernico”, 1830
• "O rachunku losów" (1817)
• "Trygonometria kulista analitycznie wyłożona" (1817)
• "O pismach klasycznych i romantycznych", Dziennik Wileński (1819)
• "Filozofia umysłu ludzkiego" (1821)

Web links

Commons : Jan Śniadecki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Sniadecki, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 35th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 211–216 ( digitized version ).