Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński
Josef Hoene - Wronski (actually Josef Hoene, born August 23, 1776 in Wolsztyn in Poland; † August 9, 1853 in Paris) was a Polish philosopher and mathematician.
Life
Vronsky, as he is known today mostly, was born on August 23, 1776 in Wolsztyn as Josef Hoene. His father was a native of Bohemia architect Antoni Hoehne.
Trained in the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw, he was involved in 1794 as an officer of artillery in the Polish army at the Kościuszko Uprising, but fell in the battle of Maciejowice in Russian captivity. As a result, he was required to serve in the Russian army. After his release in 1797 he went to Germany to study philosophy and the rights to several universities. He was particularly interested because the doctrine of Kant.
In 1800 he went to France and joined Dąbrowski legions in the fight for the freedom of Poland. Soon, however, he turned back to philosophical and other scientific studies. In 1803 he had an "enlightenment" that led him to develop an "absolute " philosophy. By 1810 he lived mainly in Marseille, where he worked at the observatory in 1810 married the daughter of an astronomer. Shortly after the marriage, he took the name Vronsky, he used alternately or in connection with his original surname. But then he lost his place at the observatory, and the rest of his life he spent as a private scholar mainly in Paris.
His livelihood, he earned first as a mathematics teacher in Montmartre. In 1812 he met the businessman Pierre Arson, who became an avid student Vronsky and generously financially supported him in return. This arrangement lasted for several years, although Arson meantime became convinced that Vronsky was in fact an impostor, and tried unsuccessfully to free himself of the agreements.
Work
Wronski claimed to philosophy and mathematics to reform fundamentally, and has published numerous papers in a wide topic. In science, his works were usually rejected, and already his first book was such a negative admission that he had to give up at the observatory in consequence his place.
His " Absolute " philosophy he described as " messianism " because they should renew humanity comprehensively. He drew on Kant, but rejected its interpretation of a priori knowledge back as subjectively, by postulating that the laws of reason were identical with those of the universe. Religious scholar Arthur McCalla called Vronsky's philosophy as a synthesis of post- kantianischem idealism and Illuminism.
In mathematics Wronski proposed a series expansion for functions whose coefficients are the now so-called Wronskian determinants.
More in secret he dealt with the Kabbalah, Jacob Boehme and with Gnostic teachings. In this field he had in his last years a big impact on Eliphas Levi, the founder of the modern French occultism.
Influenced by Wronski were also the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz and Zygmunt Krasinski and philosopher Bronislaw Ferdynand Trentowski and Karol Libelt.
Writings
- Introduction à la philosophie des Mathématiques et technique de l' algorithme. Didot, Paris 1811
- Résolution générale des equations de tous les degrés. Paris 1811
- Philosophie de l' infin. Paris 1814
- Canon de Logarithmes. Paris 1827
- Prodrome you messianisme, révélation of destinées de l' Humanité. Doyen, Paris 1831 Prodrome of messianism or the Absolute philosophy. Stalling, Oldenburg 1931