Stanislav Vydra
Encyclopedia
Stanislav Vydra was a Bohemia
n Jesuit
priest, writer
, mathematician
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of Hradec Králové in 1757. After two years in Brno, he studied philosophy and mathematics from 1762 to 1764 at Prague University. His teachers included Joseph Stepling and Jan Tesánek
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In 1765, he went as a teacher to Jicín and was a minister in Vilímov starting in 1771. In 1772, he was appointed professor of mathematics at the university in Prague. Here he taught until 1773. 1789 and 1790 he was appointed to the mathematics faculty, and in 1800, to the rector of the university. He went blind in 1803 and died one year later.
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Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
n Jesuit
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...
priest, writer
Writer
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, mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
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Life
Vydra entered the Jesuit novitiateNovitiate
Novitiate, alt. noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a novice monastic or member of a religious order undergoes prior to taking vows in order to discern whether they are called to the religious life....
of Hradec Králové in 1757. After two years in Brno, he studied philosophy and mathematics from 1762 to 1764 at Prague University. His teachers included Joseph Stepling and Jan Tesánek
Jan Tesánek
Jan Tesánek was a Bohemian scholar and author of scientific literature.Tesánek studied a gymnasium in Prague and later at Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University. In 1745, he became a Jesuit and studied mathematics, physics and astronomy under Joseph Stepling. Stepling introduced Tesánek to...
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In 1765, he went as a teacher to Jicín and was a minister in Vilímov starting in 1771. In 1772, he was appointed professor of mathematics at the university in Prague. Here he taught until 1773. 1789 and 1790 he was appointed to the mathematics faculty, and in 1800, to the rector of the university. He went blind in 1803 and died one year later.
Teachings
Stanislav Vydra taught elementary mathematics, since 1752 a compulsory subject for the students at the philosophical faculty. After his death, his pupil and successor Josef Ladislav Jandera published his book Pocátkowé Arytmetyky, which was the first text book of elementary mathematics in BohemiaBohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
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Literature
- Between elementary mathematics and national wiedergeburt - 274 sides, Broschur
- George Schuppener, Karel Macek: Stanislav Vydra (1741-1804) , Leipzig University publishing house (2004)