title: Johann Christoph Heilbronner
text: # 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 (German: Geschichte der Mathematik, Latin: Historia matheseos)".
  
  