Michał Jan Hube

Michał Jan Hube (1737 to 1807) was a Polish physicist and educator, born in Toruń. He held early posts in Toruń, in Warsaw and at the court of King Stanisław Augustus, and is named as headmaster of the Collegium Nobilium and as director of the Corps of Cadets. He wrote textbooks for the National Education Commission, the body that organised schooling in Poland in the later eighteenth century, among them an introduction to physics for the national schools in 1783, a book of physical letters on the science of nature in 1791 and a physics textbook for the national schools in 1792. Some of his own scientific work was done in meteorology.