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The ill-fated mountaineer George Mallory's only book was "Boswell the Biographer"?

Biographies

James Boswell mentioned thousands of people in his extensive journals and other writings. Read about an ever increasing number of those people, and about their relationship with Boswell, in our biographies section.

Literature

In our literature section you can read about the numerous books published by Boswell in his own lifetime, and about more than 40 other books about or related to Boswell published since his death in 1795.

Johan Frederik Hennert - Professor

Johan Frederik Hennert

Born 1733
Died 1813

Alias:

Professor Hennert

Biography:

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)

Life with Boswell:

Boswell went to Hennert's inaugural lecture, De Ingenio Mathematici, at Utrecht on Frebruary 6, 1764, describing him as "lively and eloquent".

Notes:

Note 1: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/GEHN/GEHNPDF/WaterControlandUsefulKnowledge-KarelDavids.pdf