Anton Ambschel

Anton Ambschel (also often spelled as Ambschl, Ambschell, Ambšl) (1 December 1746 in Cerknica, Slovenia – 14 July 1821 in Bratislava, Slovakia) was a Slovenian[1] mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer.

Much like Jakob Štelin, Martin Kuralt and Franz Samuel Karpe, he was one of the major Slovene Enlightenment philosophers from the seventeenth century and the eighteenth century.[1] He wrote in Latin and later did so in German as well.

In 1678, he entered the Jesuits. Between 1773 and 1785, he worked as a public and full professor of physics on the Jesuits board in Ljubljana. Until 1785, he was also a board chancellor but was later dismissed. He also worked as a professor of physics and mechanics at the University of Vienna until 1803. He was a member of Academia Operosorum Labacensium.

Although he was a physicist, his most prominent work in German, Anfangsgruende der allgemeinen auf Erscheinungen und Versuche gebauten Naturlehre I-VI, was established via Liebniz-Wolff rationalism. With this book, he renounced his scholasticism, established nature empirically and formulated physics as being literary for describing the effects between bodies.

References

  1. ^ a b Jerman 1992.
  • Dimitz, August (2013), History of Carniola, Volume IV: From Ancient Times to the Year 1813 with Special Consideration of Cultural Development, Slovenian Genealogical Society International, p. 144, ISBN 9781483604183.
  • Glonar, Joža (2009), "Ambschel Anton", Slovenski biografski leksikon 1925–1991 (in Slovenian) (electronic ed.), Ljubljana: SAZU.
  • Jerman, Frane (1992), "The history of philosophy in Slovenia: a brief sketch", Slovene Studies, 13 (1): 53–56.


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