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The Connections of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Co-inventor of calculus and pioneer of computation Every person recorded alongside Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Catharina Schmuck
- Teachers
- Christiaan Huygens, Baruch Spinoza, Jakob Thomasius, Bartholomäus Leonhard Schwendendörffer, Erhard Weigel, Johann Heinrich Boeckler
- Students
- Jacob Bernoulli, Johann Bernoulli, Raphael Levi Hannover
- Influenced by
- Plato, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, Aristotle, Christiaan Huygens, Maimonides, Confucius, Giordano Bruno, Francisco Suárez
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1646 to 1716.
Early Modern era
Christoph Jentzsch
April 13, 1599 – April 25, 1648
Historical figure
Early Modern era
Charles III
January 20, 1716 – December 14, 1788
King of Spain from 1759 to 1788
Early Modern era
Jean Cavalier
November 28, 1681 – May 17, 1740
Camisard rebel leader, Governor of Jersey
Early Modern era
Louis XIV
September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715
King of France and Navarre from 1643 to 1715 (1638-1715)
Early Modern era
Frederick the Great
January 24, 1712 – August 17, 1786
King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
Early Modern era
Peter the Great
May 30, 1672 – January 28, 1725
Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
Early Modern era
Oliver Cromwell
April 25, 1599 – September 3, 1658
English military and political leader (1599–1658)
Early Modern era
Shah Jahan
January 15, 1592 – January 22, 1666
The fifth Mughal Emperor from 1628 to 1658
Early Modern era
Aurangzeb
November 3, 1618 – March 3, 1707
The sixth Mughal Emperor from 1658 to 1707
Early Modern era
Shivaji
February 19, 1627 – April 3, 1680
Indian Maratha king and founder of the Maratha Swaraj (Empire)
Early Modern era
Kangxi Emperor
May 4, 1654 – December 20, 1722
3rd Emperor of the Qing dynasty (r. 1661–1722)
Early Modern era
Qianlong Emperor
September 25, 1711 – February 7, 1799
Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1711–1799)