page_title: Jakub Kresa
section_title: In the Czech crown lands
hierarchical_section_title: Jakub Kresa / Biography / In the Czech crown lands
caption_attribution_description: Philosophical Faculty of the Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
context_page_description: Jakub Kresa, Spanish: Jacobo Kresa, Latin: Jacobo Kreysa was one of the most important Czech mathematicians of the Baroque era.
context_section_description: In 1681 Jakub Kresa started to teach Hebrew at the University of Olomouc. There he obtained his first doctorate and between 1682 and 1684 taught mathematics. In Olomouc Kresa's other high points included presiding at the academic dissertation of the mathematician and astronomer Jan Taletius, who devised a model to predict eclipses of the sun and of the moon.
  Jakub Kresa was also often entrusted with diplomatic tasks. During the peasants' uprising in northern Bohemia in 1680, he served as mediator between the cavalry regiment of general Vilém Harant z Polžic and the peasant leaders.
  In 1684 Kresa left Olomouc to become head of the Departments of Mathematics and of Hebreistics at the Charles University. He was also preaching at the St. Salvador church in Prague. By this time he was already well known for his extraordinary skills regarding mathematics, languages and diplomacy, and he was offered the position of head of Department of Mathematics at the Colegio Imperial de Madrid. He relocated to Spain in 1686 and stayed there for fifteen years.
caption: Courtyard of Philosophical Faculty of Olomouc University, at which Kresa obtained doctorate in 1680s
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