Died 1853-08-08.
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Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński
Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński was a Polish messianist philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, lawyer, occultist and economist. Trained as an officer in the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he participated in the Polish–Russian War of 1792 and the Kościuszko Uprising.
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science · Polish philosopher (1776–1853) · mathematician · philosopher · economist · military personnel · also Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Hoene-Wroński
Born 23 August 1776 · Died 8 August 1853 · Q331856
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1853· 2 entries
In Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, on the outskirts of Paris
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1852· 1 entry
Shortly before his death, he did find a willing audience for his ideas: the occultist Eliphas Levi who met Wroński and was greatly impressed and "attracted by his religious and scientific utopianism
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1822· 1 entry
Returned to France, and again took up a combination of mathematics and far-fetched ideas, despite being in poverty and scorned by intellectual society
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1821· 1 entry
Published an introductory text on mathematics in London, which moderately improved his financial situation
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1819· 1 entry
Travelled to England in an attempt to obtain financial backing from the Board of Longitude to build a device to determine longitude at sea
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1812· 1 entry
Published a paper purporting to show that every equation has an algebraic solution, directly contradicting results which had been recently published by Paolo Ruffini; Ruffini turned out to be correct
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1810· 1 entry
Published the results of his scientific research in a massive tome, which he advocated as a new foundation for all of science and mathematics
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1803· 2 entries
Wroński joined the Marseille Observatory, and began developing an enormously complex theory of the structure and origin of the universe
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Wroński "experienced a mystical illumination, which he regarded as the discovery of the Absolute
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1776· 1 entry
Born 1776-08-23.
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