Otto Mencke (; ; 22 March 1644 – 18 January 1707) was a 17th-century
German philosopher
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
and
scientist.
Work
Mencke obtained his doctorate at the
University of Leipzig in August 1666 with a thesis entitled: ''Ex Theologia naturali – De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam''.
He is notable as being the founder of the very first scientific journal in Germany, established 1682, entitled ''
Acta Eruditorum.'' He was a professor of moral philosophy at the
University of Leipzig, but is more famous for his
scientific genealogy that produced a fine lineage of mathematicians that includes notables such as
Carl Friedrich Gauss and
David Hilbert
David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many a ...
.
The
Mathematics Genealogy Project database records more than 102,000 () mathematicians and other scientists in his lineage. The Philosophy Family Tree records 535 philosophers in his lineage .
and Mencke were in correspondence in 1693.
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1644 births
1707 deaths
People from Oldenburg (city)
German philosophers
German male writers