Johan Frederik Hennert - Professor

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)

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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".

Notes

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

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