Otto Mencke
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| Otto Mencke | |
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 Otto Mencke
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| Born | 22 March 1644 Oldenburg, Germany |
| Died | 18 January 1707 (aged 62) Leipzig, Germany |
| 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 |
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He is the father of Johann Burchard Mencke. |
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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.
Isaac Newton and Mencke were in correspondence in 1693.
