Johann Christoph Heilbronner
Johann Christoph Heilbronner (13 March 1706, in Ulm – 17 January 1745 (or c.1747), in Leipzig) was a German mathematical historian (Mathematikhistoriker) and theologian.

Literary works 
 Versuch einer Geschichte der Mathematik and Arithmetik (), 1739
 Historia matheseos universae a mundo condito ad seculum post Chr. Nat. XVI (or Historia matheseos universae; ), 1742

These two books are the first books that named and used the phrase "mathematical history (, )".

External links 
 Heilbronner, Johann Christoph von Moritz Cantor in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 11 (1880), S. 313.
  (German)

German historians of mathematics
18th-century German Christian theologians
1706 births
1745 deaths
German male non-fiction writers
18th-century German writers
18th-century German male writers