Johann Jakob Hentsch

Johann Jakob Hentsch (also Jacob ; born January 24, 1723 in Budissin , Markgraftum Oberlausitz , † July 15, 1764 in Helmstedt ) was a German mathematician , philosopher and university professor .

Life

Hentsch attended grammar school in Budissin and then went to the University of Leipzig to study philosophical subjects . There he obtained his master's degree in philosophy in 1748 . He then completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at Leipzig University and was active both in teaching and writing. In 1758 he followed a call as a full professor of mathematics at the University of Helmstedt . There he died in office.

His literary work is characterized by founding a philosophy on a mathematical foundation.

Image from De curvis, punctum inflexionis vel regressus ... Auctore Io. Iacobo Hentschio published in Acta Eruditorum , 1762

Introductio plana in philosophiam , 4 volumes, Leipzig 1751–1752.
Philosophia Mathematica Complectens Methodum Cogitandi Ex Euclide Restitutam , 2 volumes, Leipzig 1756.
Experiment on the sequence of changes in the human soul, in which the way to a precise knowledge of the same is opened , Breitkopf, Leipzig 1756.
De Mathesi Vniversali Ad Geometriam Cvrvarvm Accommodata Disserit Simvlqve Lectiones , Schnorr, Helmstedt 1758.

Hentsch, Johann Jacob , in: Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn (Ed.): The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers , Bloomsbury, London 2016, ISBN 9781474256001 , p. 319f.
Moritz Cantor : Hentsch, Johann Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 11.
Hentsch, Johann Jakob , in: Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Volume 5, Leipzig 1805, p. 373f.

personal data
SURNAME	Hentsch, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hentsch, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician, philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budissin
DATE OF DEATH	July 15, 1764
Place of death	Helmstedt