Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (c. 1690 – 11 July 1766) was a Bohemian mathematician.
Ignatz Heinrich Mühlwenzel (referred to in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich as Heinrich Mühlwenzel)[1] was a member of the Jesuit order and a professor of mathematics at the University of Prague.
He was of minority German ethnicity in western Czech border.
[clarification needed] He was a skilled optician who ground lenses for his own telescopes.
Mühlwenzel is notable because his mathematical "descendants," which include Johann Radon, number more than 10,000.