Franco Burgersdijk

Franco Petri Burgersdijk or Franciscus Burgersdicius, born Franck Pieterszoon Burgersdijk, (3 May 1590, De Lier - 19 February 1635, Leiden), was a Dutch logician.

Life

He was a student of Jacchaeus (Gilbert Jack). Burgersdijk finished his studies at the University of Leiden in 1610. He left to further study theology at the University of Saumur, where he became professor of philosophy in 1614. After five years he returned to Leiden, where he accepted the chair of logic and moral philosophy, and afterwards that of natural philosophy.

Works

His Logic was at one time widely used. He wrote also Idea Philosophiae Moralis (1644).

References

• Egbert P. Bos, Franco Burgersdijk (1590-1635). Neo-aristotelian in Leiden, Editions Rodopi 1993, ISBN 9051833741.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Burgersdyk, Francis". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.