Ignacije Szentmartony

Ignacije Szentmartony (October 28, 1718 - April 15, 1793) was a Croatian Jesuit priest born in Kotoriba (Me?imurje), into a family with a Croat mother and a Hungarian father.

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After graduating from secondary school he entered the order of Jesuits in Vienna in 1735. He studied in Vienna and Graz, (Austria) where he lectured in mathematics. By the year 1751, he was in Lisbon, Portugal where he obtained the title of royal mathematician and astronomer. With those credentials, he became a member of the expedition that worked on the rearrangement of the frontiers among colonies, (Portugal and Spain), in South America.

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