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Johannes Hancke (also Jan Hancke; Joannes Hancke; 2 February 1644 – 24 August 1713) was a German Jesuit theology professor and mathematician.

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.^[1] 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.

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Positiones ex universa theologie scholastice. 1672
Genesis montium propositionibus physico-mathematici illustrata. 1680
Tenebrae summatim illustratae sive doctrina eclipsium … Christophorus Küchler, Mainz 1682^[2]
Praedictio astronomica solaris deliquii ad annum 1684. 1683
Horologium nocturnum magneticum. 1683
with Kaspar Neumann: Exercitatio catoptrica de idolo speculi. Baumann, Breslau 1685
Litera de cogitata et Romae agitata reformatione calendarii Gregoriani. 1702

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www.phil.muni.cz
navarikp.sweb.cz Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine

^ "Historie matematiky na olomoucké univerzitě". navarikp.sweb.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-04-16.
^ "MDZ-Reader | Band | Tenebrae summatim illustratae / Hancke, Johannes". reader.digitale-sammlungen.de. Retrieved 2016-04-16.

[1] "Historie matematiky na olomoucké univerzitě". navarikp.sweb.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-04-16.

[2] "MDZ-Reader | Band | Tenebrae summatim illustratae / Hancke, Johannes". reader.digitale-sammlungen.de. Retrieved 2016-04-16.

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