Jurij Vega about himself

Abstract

Jurij Vega wrote along with a request to Emperor Francis I to be granted baronial title his autobiography as well. In it, Vega emphasised his military merits in the battles for Belgrade and in the Rhineland while he did not describe his professional work as much. He mentioned only the fourth volume of mathematical lectures and the logarithmic tables. Vega’s biography reveals to us an ambitious man who promoted rapidly in the military, that became member of several academies and other scientific associations, and was on August 22nd 1800 finally granted hereditary baronial title.