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Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld (1605 – 16 February 1655) 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 (Academia Nassauensis), 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.
• 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.

Notes

1. Paolo Rossi, Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language, London: Athlone Press, 2000, pp.142-144.
2. In the list Herborn School 1613-9 pupils, as Bisterfeldius, with mention of later position at Alba Iulia.
3. These two works were annotated by the young Leibniz (1663-1666): Akademie Ausgabe VI, 1, pp. 151-162.
4. Contributors to the Universal Language

External links

• Works by Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld at Post-Reformation Digital Library
• The Correspondence of Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld in EMLO
• Biographical (in Hungarian)

• 1605 births
• 1655 deaths
• German academics
• German encyclopedists
• People from Siegen
• 17th-century German writers
• 17th-century German philosophers
• German male non-fiction writers
• 17th-century German male writers