Abstract
This contribution presents a brief overview of the life and work of an important representative of eighteenth-century German Jesuit science. Franz Huberti started his academic career in Fulda, but soon moved to Würzburg, where he stayed until the end of his life. Huberti was mainly a teacher and author of numerous textbooks of mathematics and physics. Towards the end of his life, he was also active in the codification of units of measurement. His most important contribution to science, however, was the construction of an astronomic observatory at the Würzburg university. He was a dedicated friend of Josef Stepling of Prague: he corresponded with him for many years and visited him twice. He was helping to acquire instruments for the Prague observatory, which was at the time being furnished. Most of these instruments were imported from England, but the mural quadrant was produced for Stepling by his own mechanist.
Highlights
FRANZ HUBERTI (1715–1789), STEPLING’S FRIEND AND CORRESPONDENT. This contribution presents a brief overview of the life and work of an important representative of eighteenth-century German Jesuit science
Franz Huberti started his academic career in Fulda, but soon moved to Würzburg, where he stayed until the end of his life
Für die in Prag entstehende Sternwarte beschaffte er die notwendigen Geräte, die er überwiegend aus England kommen ließ, den Mauerquadranten für Stepling stellte jedoch sein Mechaniker her
Summary
Johann Franz Huberti se narodil 20. května 1715 v Geisenheimu na Rýně, poblíž Mohuče. Byl tedy o rok starší než Stepling. Studia filozofie zahájil v roce 1731 v Mohuči a po třech letech, v roce 1734, je úspěšně ukončil jako magistr filozofie. V následujících letech působil jako učitel, v jezuitské koleji ve Fuldě vyučoval například gramatiku a rétoriku. V letech 1742–1746 studoval v Mohuči teologii. Poté působil v jezuitských kolejích v dnešním Baden-Badenu a v Ettlingen, kde složil 15. Srpna 1748 poslední řádový slib a stal se tak konečně a definitivně členem řádu. To vše byl v Societas Jesu typický postup, kterým prošel jen s nepatrným časovým posunem i Stepling. Poté se však kariéry obou mužů začaly ubírat poněkud jiným směrem. Naopak Huberti byl daleko více svázán s vlastním pedagogickým posláním fakulty
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