Friedrich Leibniz
(1597–1652)
BIRTH
1597
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Altenberg, Electorate of Saxony
DEATH
September 1652 (September 5 or 15 in consulted accounts)
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Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony
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Friedrich Leibniz was a Leipzig jurist, notary and professor of moral philosophy. He was the father of philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Catharina Schmuck was his third wife.
EARLY LIFE
He practiced law and taught moral philosophy in Leipzig.
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Friedrich Leibniz died in Leipzig in September 1652, leaving his six-year-old son Gottfried Wilhelm and younger daughter Anna Catharina in their mother's care. A Cambridge University Press biography gives September 15; a German genealogical account gives September 5. Leipzig still used the Julian calendar, which may account for the ten-day difference. The consulted sources do not establish a cause of death.
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