Friedrich Leibniz (1597 - 1652)

Born 24 Nov 1597 in Altenberg, Sachsen, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Catharina (Schmuck) Leibniz — married 21 May 1644 in Leipzig, Sachsen, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died 5 Sep 1652 at age 54 in Leipzig, Kurfürstentum Sachsen, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Biography

Leibniz was born in 1597 in Altenburg, the son of Ambrosious Leibniz, a civil servant, and a Leipzig noblewoman named Anna Deuerlin.[3]

He completed his master's degree at the University of Leipzig during 1622 and became an actuary in administration at the University.[1] His first marriage in 1625 produced a son, Johann Friedrich, and a daughter, Anna Rosina. He was elected to the chair in moral philosophy at Leipzig in 1640. A childless marriage to a second wife ended with her death 1643.[3][6] A subsequent 1644 marriage to Catharina Schmuck, a daughter of a well known lawyer (or professor of law[5]) produced a son, the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.[3]

“ On Sunday 21 June [NS: 1 July] 1646, my son Gottfried Wilhelm is born into the world a quarter after six in the evening, in Aquarius.[7][8] ”

During 1646 Leibniz was vice chairman of the faculty of philosophy and also was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Leipzig, in addition to employment as actuary.[3] He possessed a collection of books of ancient source.[5] He died in 1652 in Leipzig.

“ ... a competent though not original scholar, who devoted his time to his offices and to his family as a pious, Christian father.[9] ”

Leibniz is notable because his mathematical "descendants," which include Carl Friedrich Gauss, number more than 119,000

Sources

• Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Leibniz
• Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Leibn%C3%BCtz