Ivan Krstitelj Horvat (1732–1799)

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Biographical data

• 1732 461 Born in Esztergom
• 1751 461 Entered the Society of Jesus in Trenčín
• 1799 461 Died in Budapest
• 1800 460 Died

Education

• 1760 – 1763 461 Studied theology in Trnava
• 1767 – 1769 461 Studied philosophy in Budapest

Career

• 1767 – 1791 461 Teacher of philosophy, physics, experimental physics in Trnava
• 460 Teacher in Budapest
• 461 Occupied himself with mathematics, physics, mechanics
• 461 Affiliated with the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen in Göttingen
  Corresponding member

Miscellaneous

• 1782 461 From 1782 on, Horvat was one of the four professors at the Budapest Institutum Geometricum, the first institution devoted to the training of civil engineers

Relations

• 461 Horvat was influenced by Newton and Bošković

Relations from others

• 1782 641 In 1782, Makó established the Institutum Geometricum (the first institute dedicated to the formation of civil engineers) in Budapest with the fellow Jesuits Rausch( geometry), Horvat( physics, mechanics), Ljudevit Mitterpacher( agronomy), and Josip Mitterpacher( mathematics, engineering) as teachers