Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld (1605 – 16 February 1655) was a German
polymath, active as a philosopher, logician and encyclopedic writer from
Siegen.[1] A follower of
Ramus and pupil of
Johann Heinrich Alsted at the
Herborn Academy (Academia Nassauensis),[2] Bisterfeld became head of the academy in Weissenburg (
Alba Iulia) in
Transylvania, where he died.
Works
Philosophiae primae seminarium, 1652 ( second edition: Lugduni Batavorum, 1657).
Elementorum logicorum libri tres, Lugduni Batavorum, 1657.[3]
Bisterfeldius redivivus, Hagae-Comitum, 1661, appeared posthumously in two volumes, the first being Alphabeti philosophici libri tres, on
universal language and the second Logica disputandi; this work is considered an influence on
Leibniz.[4]
Notes
^Paolo Rossi, Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language, London: Athlone Press, 2000, pp.142-144.