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Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld

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Name
  
Johann Bisterfeld


Died
  
February 16, 1655, Alba Iulia, Romania

Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld (1605 – 16 February 1655) was a German philosopher, logician and encyclopedic writer from Siegen. A follower of Ramus and pupil of Johann Heinrich Alsted at the Herborn Academy (Academia Nassauensis), 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.
  • 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.

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