Jakub Kresa

Jakub Kresa ( born July 19, 1648 Smeschitz, Moravia, † July 28, 1715 in Brno, or even Jacob Jacobo Kresa ) was a Bohemian Jesuit, mathematician, theologian, and at times the confessor of Charles VI. His broad education also included a number of languages ​​: Hebrew, Greek and Latin as dead as well as Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese as living languages. He translated the works of Euclid into Spanish.

Life

Little is known about his life before he entered the Jesuit order at age 19. However Kresa used the educational opportunities that offered him the Order to numerous studies in the fields of theology, philosophy and mathematics, especially at the University of Prague.

In 1681 he became professor of Hebrew language in Olomouc at the university and taught there after his dissertation in mathematics in fact follow a year until he was appointed in 1685 as a mathematician at the University of Prague. His language skills brought him in 1686 a professorship at the Jesuit college in Madrid ( " Reales Estudios de San Isidro " ), where he remained 15 years. In 1701 he was recalled as a professor of " Controverstheologie " back to Prague. In 1704 he left his home again and followed Charles VI. as confessor to Spain. Ten years later he returned to his retirement to his home, where he died one year later in Brno.

A larger donation, the interest on which should be used for the purchase of mathematical and astronomical literature, the Clementinum in Prague benefited and is still in existence of the Czech National Library, which has its headquarters in this building, get

Works

• " Elementos de geometricos Evclides: Los primeros seis libros de los planos y los onzedo dozeno y de los SoliDos. Con algvnos selectos theoremas de Archimedes. Traducidos explicados y por el P. Jacobo Kresa. " Francisco Foppens, Brussels 1689th
• "Analysis speciosa trigonometriae sphaericae. " Prague 1720. ( Published posthumously )