Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld

Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld was a German polymath, active as a philosopher, logician and encyclopedic writer from Siegen. A follower of Ramus and pupil of Johann Heinrich Alsted at the Herborn Academy, Bisterfeld became head of the academy in Weissenburg in Transylvania, where he died.

Works

Philosophiae primae seminarium, 1652.Elementorum logicorum libri tres, Lugduni Batavorum, 1657.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.