Otto Mencke

Otto Mencke
Otto Mencke
Born	22 March 1644(1644-03-22) Oldenburg, County of Oldenbrurg
Died	18 January 1707(1707-01-18) (aged 62) Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony
Residence	Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	Philosopher and mathematician
Institutions	University of Leipzig
Alma mater	University of Leipzig
Doctoral advisor	Jakob Thomasius
Doctoral students	Christian Michelmann Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
Known for	Acta Eruditorum
Notes He is the father of Johann Burchard Mencke.

Otto Mencke (1644  – 1707) was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 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.

The Mathematics Genealogy Project database records as many as 49,890 (as of August 2009^[update]) mathematicians and other scientists in his lineage. The Philosophy Family Tree records 535 philosophers in his lineage as of May 2010^[update]."The Philosophy Family Tree". https://webspace.utexas.edu/deverj/personal/philtree/philtree.html. 

Isaac Newton and Mencke were in correspondence in 1693.

External links

• Mathematics Genealogy Project

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Name	Mencke
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Date of birth	22 March 1644
Place of birth	Oldenburg, Germany
Date of death	18 January 1707
Place of death	Leipzig, Germany