Joseph Liesganig
✓ Source-basedstableAustrian astronomer and Jesuit
Joseph Xaver Liesganig was a Jesuit priest and geodesist who was a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna. He taught mathematics from 1742 at the University of Graz. He was involved in measuring the extent of Austria, establishing the longitude of Vienna and in early trigonometrical mapping of the region.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 7
![Portrait by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder from the Lviv National Art Gallery[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Liesganig.jpg/500px-Liesganig.jpg)
Scientists born in the 1710s 6
About this person
Joseph Xaver Liesganig was a Jesuit priest and geodesist who was a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna. He taught mathematics from 1742 at the University of Graz. He was involved in measuring the extent of Austria, establishing the longitude of Vienna and in early trigonometrical mapping of the region. He was the last of the Jesuit astronomers at the Vienna observatory.
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.