Biblischer Mathematicus Oder Erläuterung der heil. Schrift aus den Mathematischen Wissenschaften - Schmidt, Johann Jacob 1690-1757; Sarganeck, George 1702-1743; Busch, Georg Paul 1682-1759 (Züllichau Frommann, 1736)
Inserted folded pages with plates engraved by Gabriel Uhlich (1682-1741), Leipzig
Engraved frontispiece by Georg Paul Busch (1682-1759), Berlin
Sarganeck's "Die höchstnöthige Berechnung", published in Züllichau in 1735, is added to Schmidt's book of 1736 , in a continuing pagination (p.601-672)
Georg Sarganeck was a pedagogue, grammar school teacher, school inspector and pietist. He was born in Dolní Suchá in the Těšín region, a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. He studied at the University of Halle. From 1728 to 1730 he worked as a teacher at the Evangelical Jesus School in Těšín, from where he was expelled by Emperor Charles VI because of his pietism. He went to Germany, where he taught at schools in Neustadt an der Aisch and Halle. He is one of the most important personalities of Czech non-Catholic exile literature.
Title page of Sarganeck's book: "Die höchstnöthige Berechnung der Sünden-Schulden deren Grösse und Mannigfaltigkeit gegen die unendliche Versöhnung und Liebe Gottes in Christo Jesu. Anfangs bey einem Schul=Examine, Nun aber zu gemeinsamer Erbauung herausgegeben von George Sarganeck, Rectore der hochfl. Brandenburg=Culmbach. Stadt=Schule zu Neustadt an der Aisch."
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