Otto Mencke
Otto Mencke (* 22. March 1644 in Oldenburg , † January 18 . Jul / 29. January 1707 greg. In Leipzig ) was a German scholar and professor of moral and political science at the Faculty of Arts University of Leipzig .
Life
Mencke was the eldest son of the Oldenburg businessman Johannes (or Johann) Mencke. His cousin was Lüder Mencke , who also became a professor in Leipzig (for jurisprudence). After attending the Latin school in his hometown, he attended high school in Bremen, studied philosophy in Leipzig and received his master's degree in 1664 . He then studied for half a year theology at the University of Jena and then returned to Leipzig to turn to the law. A study trip took him to the Netherlands and England.
When he returned to Leipzig, he taught as a private lecturer, and from 1667 as a member of the Philosophical Faculty. He received his doctorate in 1668 under Jakob Thomasius at the University of Leipzig, was a member of the Kleiner Fürstenkolleg and in 1669 received the professorship for practical philosophy , morality and politics. At the same time, he continued his theological studies, which he completed in 1671 with a licentiate. He gave his lectures a. a. Hugo Grotius ' De jure belli ac pacis and gave a lecture on a kind of Ius publicum universale , which, according to Notker Hammerstein , calls him a “cautiously concealed supporter of the newer Dutch. Doctrine of Natural and International Law ”.
Mencke married Magdalena Sybilla Berlich in 1672, daughter of the Jena law professor Burchard Berlich . They had three children, one of whom died young. The son Johann Burckhardt Mencke (1674-1732) also became a scholar and history professor. The daughter Anna Sophia (1678-1714) married the Wittenberg orientalist Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen .
Mencke's particular merit is the publication of the first German scholarly journal , Acta eruditorum , which first appeared in Leipzig in 1682. Their model was the French Journal des sçavans . In this monthly magazine, written in Latin , new, mainly scientific books were presented. Mencke was a close friend of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who wrote over 100 articles on the Acta eruditorum. Mencke's son Johann Burckhard and grandson Friedrich Otto Mencke continued the magazine after Otto Mencke's death; its publication was discontinued in 1782.
literature
- August Mutzenbecher : Mencke, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 312 f.
- Notker Hammerstein : Mencke, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 33 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Augustinus Hubertus Laeven: The "Acta Eruditorum" under the editorship of Otto Mencke (1644-1707). The history of an international learned journal between 1682 and 1707 . APA-Holland University Press, Amsterdam and Maarssen 1990, ISBN 90-302-1296-9 ( digitized version ) - English with a German summary
Web links
- The Mencke family of scholars (University of Leipzig)
- Otto Mencke in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NDB and all entries in the German Biographical Archive indicate January 29th as the date of death. Only the ADB mentions January 18th.
- ↑ a b c Notker Hammerstein : Mencke, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 33 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ AMS Mathematic Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mencke, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1644 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1707 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |