Franco Burgersdijk

Franco Petri Burgersdijk (also: Burger Dick, Burgersdicius; May 3 in 1590 in De Lier Delfland, † February 19, 1635 in Leiden ) was a Dutch philosopher, logician and physicist.

Life

Franco Petri Burgersdijk was the son of Peter and his wife Catherine Burgersdijk. He attended from 1604, the Latin school in Amersfoort and 1606 the Latin School in Delft. On May 6 In 1610 he enrolled at the University of Leiden, where he and the lectures of Daniel Heinsius in Greek, at Dominicus Baudius ( 1561-1613 ) and Peter Cunaeus to the Roman antiquities and history, in John Polyander a Kerckhoven to theology with Gilbert Jaccaeus attended to philosophy. After a trip through France and Germany, he spent half a year in the Protestant College in Samur, where he heard the lectures of Marcus Duncan de Cerisantes and from 1614 those of Philippe Duplessis- Mornay to philosophy.

When Caspar van Baerle had resigned as Subregent the States - Colleg suffering in his office, he received on July 20, 1619 and in its place was on March 25, 1620 associate professor of logic ( rhetoric ) at Leiden University. On March 31, 1620, he acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy. You put him in October 1620 also the associate professor of ethics. On February 8, 1621, he became full professor of logic ( rhetoric ) and the ethics and he assumed the professorship of natural science ( physics ) and the rhetoric on May 9, 1628. In the capacity of a Leyden professor, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was in 1629, 1630 and 1634 rector of the Alma Mater. His textbooks stylize him a dominant figure in the Dutch scholasticism. They were published posthumously after his death and used for a long time.

He was married to Ursula, a daughter of multiple Leyden mayor Jacob Wilhelm son Verboom, from which marriage came two children. His son Peter was curator at Leiden University.

Works

  • Idea Philosophiae naturalis. Leiden 1622, 1627, 1635, 1640, 1645, 1648, 1652; Amsterdam in 1657, 1648, 1657
  • Idea Philosophiae moralis. Leiden 1623, 1629, 1635, 1640, 1644
  • Institutionum logicarum libri II Leiden 1626, 1635, 1646
  • Sphaera Joannis de Sacro Bosco. Leiden 1626, 1639, 1647, 1656
  • Institutiones physicae. Leiden and Amsterdam in 1649
  • Collegium physicum. Leiden 1637, 1642
  • Idea oeconomicae et politicae doctrinae. Leiden 1644, 1649, 1657
  • Institutionum metaphysicarum libri II Leiden 1647, 1653, 1657
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