Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld

Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld (1605 – 16 February 1655) was a German polymath, active as a philosopher, logician and encyclopedic writer from Siegen.^[1] A follower of Ramus and pupil of Johann Heinrich Alsted at the Herborn Academy (Academia Nassauensis),^[2] Bisterfeld became head of the academy in Weissenburg (Alba Iulia) in Transylvania, where he died.

Works

Philosophiae primae seminarium, 1652 ( second edition: Lugduni Batavorum, 1657).
Elementorum logicorum libri tres, Lugduni Batavorum, 1657.^[3]
Bisterfeldius redivivus, Hagae-Comitum, 1661, appeared posthumously in two volumes, the first being Alphabeti philosophici libri tres, on universal language and the second Logica disputandi; this work is considered an influence on Leibniz.^[4]

Notes

^ Paolo Rossi, Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language, London: Athlone Press, 2000, pp.142-144.
^ In the list Herborn School 1613-9 pupils, as Bisterfeldius, with mention of later position at Alba Iulia.
^ These two works were annotated by the young Leibniz (1663-1666): Akademie Ausgabe VI, 1, pp. 151-162.
^ Contributors to the Universal Language

External links

Works by Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld at Post-Reformation Digital Library
The Correspondence of Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld in EMLO
Biographical (in Hungarian)

[1] Paolo Rossi, Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language, London: Athlone Press, 2000, pp.142-144.

[2] In the list Herborn School 1613-9 pupils, as Bisterfeldius, with mention of later position at Alba Iulia.

[3] These two works were annotated by the young Leibniz (1663-1666): Akademie Ausgabe VI, 1, pp. 151-162.

[4] Contributors to the Universal Language

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