Background
John Hancke was born in Neisse, and joined the Jesuit order in 1664.
Astronomer mathematician university professor writer
John Hancke was born in Neisse, and joined the Jesuit order in 1664.
After his novitiate in Brno, he studied theology from 1670 to 1674 at the universities of Breslau and Prague and he published his Theses Mathematicae in 1676.
He taught Mathematics and Theology in Prague and at the Palacký University of Olomouc and the University of Breslau. He died, aged 69, in Brno.