Stanislav Vydra

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Stanislav Vydra

Stanislav Vydra SJ , (German Stanislaus Wydra ; born November 13, 1741 in Königgrätz ; † December 3, 1804 in Prague ) was a Catholic theologian and professor of mathematics at the Prague Clementinum and at the University of Prague , where he held the post of Rector dressed. He belonged to the Jesuit order .

Life

Grave at the Olšany cemetery in Prague

Stanislaus Wydra was the youngest son of the Königgrätzer councilor Karl Wydra and Theresia Umlauf, both of whom came from Neubidschow . Stanislaus initially received private tuition and was accepted into the first Latin class of the Königgrätzer Jesuit grammar school at the age of eight. In 1757 he joined the Jesuit order. His oldest brother Ignaz († 1783) also belonged to the order and was most recently superior of the Jesuit college in Tuchomieritz . After the two-year novitiate in Brno, Stanislaus repeated the Humaniora in Klattau in 1760/61 . From 1762 to 1764 he studied philosophy and mathematics at the Prague Clementinum .

In 1765 he was sent by his superiors to the Jesuit grammar school in Jitschin , where he taught grammar . He then returned to Prague to continue his studies and was assistant to Joseph Stepling for five years . At the same time he studied theology and higher mathematics with Jan Tesánek . In 1769 he was ordained a priest and in 1770 he spent the tertiary in Jitschin. In 1771/72 the order delegated pastoral care to him in Vilémov . On the recommendation of Stepling, after the repeal of the Jesuit order in 1773, he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Karl Ferdinand University. After Stepling's death on December 5, 1778, he gave a commemorative address in Latin and also wrote Stepling's biography in Latin, which was printed. From 1785 mathematics, which until then had been presented in Latin, had to be taught in German. On the centenary of the death of the Jesuit Bohuslav Balbín on November 28, 1788, he published a biography in German.

In 1789 and 1790 Wydra was elected Dean of the Philosophical Faculty. In 1799 he was given a canonical at the Chapter of All Saints at Prague Castle , which had not been awarded for a long time. In the academic year 1800 he held the post of university rector . In 1803 he went blind and died a year later. His body was buried in the Olšany cemetery in Prague .

On July 20, 1816, Wydra's pupil and successor, Josef Ladislav Jandera, gave the “Speech on the Commemorative Celebration of the Revered Stanislaus Wydra”, which was published in the same year by Gottlieb Haase in Prague.

Works

  • Historia mathesios in Bohemia et Moravia cultae . Leipzig 1778
  • Oratio Ad Monumentum A Maria Theresia Augusta Josepho Stepling . In Bibliotheca Clementina Erectum, Rituque Solenni Dedicatum, 1780
  • Počátkowé Arytmetyky , 1806

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register entry in the German biography
  2. ↑ digitized version
  3. ↑ Published after Wydra's death by his successor Josef Ladislav Jandera.
personal data
SURNAME Vydra, Stanislav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wydra, Stanislaus; Wydra, Stanislaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian mathematician and Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Hradec Králové
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1804
Place of death Prague