Johan Frederik Hennert - Professor
Biography
Birth: 1733
Death: 1813
Born in Berlin. Student of Mathematics under Swiss Mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) and French Mathematician and Astronomer Joseph Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768). Professor of Philosophy, Mathematics and Astronomy at the University of Utrecht (1764-?) From the 1780s he also offered public lectures on the course of rivers.1 He authored Dissertations physiques et mathematiques (1778)
Also known as
- Professor Hennert
Life with James Boswell
Boswell went to Hennert's inaugural lecture, De Ingenio Mathematici, at Utrecht on Frebruary 6, 1764, describing him as "lively and eloquent".
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Johan Frederik Hennert is mentioned in:
- Boswell in Holland 1763-1764
