Johann Friedrich Polack

Johann Friedrich Polack (born November 25, 1700 in Bernstadt ad Eigen ; † April 22, 1772 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German legal scholar , mathematician and camera scientist .

Life

Polack studied law and then mathematics at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt ( Alma Mater Viadrina ). From 1730 to 1733 he was an associate professor of jurisprudence and then until 1752 a full professor of mathematics. From 1752 to 1758 he was a full professor of law. In 1758 he received the chair for economics, police and camera studies at the Viadrina, which was a center of Prussian police and administrative sciences in the early 18th century.

His well-known work Mathesis forensis ("Forensic Mathematics") appeared for the first time in 1734 , and in the following decades it appeared in significantly expanded versions and with slightly changed titles. His treatise is one of the early works in which mathematical aspects of inheritance disputes , accidents , bankruptcies, surveying issues, property allocations, interest bills as well as details on Prussian building law practice, the mill regulations and other administrative questions are dealt with.

Polack was a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

Johann Friedrich Polack, Georg Bernhard Bilfinger: Mathesis forensis - Or detailed treatise of those, in the application of the rights for upcoming cases, in whose judgment and decision one is indispensable for mathematics. Provided with the appropriate copper. In addition to an appendix… GB Bilfingers from the calculation of the Interusurii . 2nd Edition. Lanckisch, Leipzig 1740. [1]

literature

Moritz Cantor : Polack, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 381.

Individual evidence

^ Members of the predecessor academies: Johann Friedrich Polack. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 7, 2017 .

Web links

Works by and about Johann Friedrich Polack in the German Digital Library

personal data
SURNAME	Polack, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, mathematician and camera scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bernstadt ad Eigen
DATE OF DEATH	April 22, 1772
Place of death	Frankfurt (Oder)

[1] Members of the predecessor academies: Johann Friedrich Polack. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 7, 2017 .