| YEAR | EVENTS, PUBLISHINGS, WRITINGS | note |
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| 1646 Jul |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born in Leipzig on July 1, Sunday afternoon. Father : Friedrich (1597-1652, a professor of Leipzig University). Mother : Catharina (1621-1664, the 3rd and last wife of Friedrich). Sister : Anna Catharina (1648-1672). |
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| 1652 Sep |
his father Friedrich died. | |
| 1653 Jul |
started school (the Nicolai School). little interest in childlike playing. Given access to his father's library (1654-), read a lot of scholastic, theological writings. |
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| 1661 Apr |
entered Leipzig University. studied philosophy and jurisprudence. Lectures on : Aristotle, Euclid, Latin poetry, Greek literature, Latin prose and history, Hebrew. was affected by Jacob Thomasius (rhetoric). |
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| 1663 Jun |
Disputatio metaphysica de principio individui the bachelor paper. |
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| 1663 Jun |
summer semester at Jena University. was affected much by the lectures of Erhard Weigel (mathematics), who applied the method of Euclid-like demonstration to philosophy. was interested in pythagoreanism affected by the books of J. H. Bisterfeld. Leibniz has got Philosophiae primae seminarium (Leiden, 1657) and Phosphorus catholicus, seu artis meditandi epitome (Leiden, 1657) at hand. |
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| 1664 Feb |
his mother Catharina died. | |
| 1664 Dec |
Specimen quaestionum philosophicarum ex jure collectarum the master paper. |
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| 1666 Mar |
Dissertatio de Arte Combinatoria a famous work. Immature but profound. |
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| 1666 Oct |
left Leipzig University, entered Altdorf University. | |
| 1667 | came into contact with a Rosicrucian (?) society at Nürnberg. |