The Ljubljana professor Jožef Jakob Maffei, his relatives, collaborators and students

Abstract

The contribution is dedicated to the bicentennial of the death of the Ljubljana professor of mathematical sciences, Maffei. His relatives and their significant role in the political life of Gorizia, San Pietro and Trieste are shown. In Maffei's Ljubljana period his assistance to Gabrijel Gruber and his influence on Jurij Vega are indicted. The difficulties which the Jesuit Maffei met with after the suppression of the Jesuit order in 1773 are described, as they are the reasons which caused Maffei to convert to freemasonry.