Johann Matthias Matsko

Johann Matthias M. Matsko (born December 5, 1721 in Preßburg ; † November 22, 1796 in Kassel ) was an astronomer , mathematician and university professor .

Life

Matsko's early career is largely unknown. At Easter 1741 she was enrolled at the University of Jena . He also studied at the University of Halle and from 1743 at the University of Göttingen . After graduation, he went to the Thorner Gymnasium in 1745 . After another ten years, in 1755, he became senior teacher with the Counts of Stolberg . On the recommendation of the mathematician Johann Ludwig Oeder , he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Rinteln in 1761 .

Matsko finally followed in 1767 a call as a full professor of mathematics from Rinteln to the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel. In addition, he was appointed head of the Kassel observatory . It was one of the oldest observatories in Europe. He was also awarded the title of court counselor in Hesse-Cassel .

Generaliores meditationes de machinis hydraulicis . Lemgo 1761.
De projectone globorum majorum igniariorum . Rinteln 1762.
Reasons of the differential calculus and some applications of it. Kassel 1768.
De pictura lineari, quam Perspectivam dicunt. Kassel 1772.
In memory of the merits of Landgr. Frederick II for astronomy. Kassel 1786.

Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume 8, Fleischer, Leipzig 1808, p. 525 f.
Constantin von Wurzbach : Matsko, Johann Mathias . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 17th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, pp. 110–112 ( digitized version ).
Moritz Cantor : Matsko, Johann Matthias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 602.

^ At Moritz Cantor: Matsko, Johann Matthias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 602. The year 1717 is given differently based on a contemporary report. According to their own information, however, the date of birth given here is correct.

personal data
SURNAME	Matsko, Johann Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Matsko, Johann Matthias M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Toaster, mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1796
Place of death	kassel