Joachim Jungius

Joachim Jungius, born Joachim Junge in Lübeck on 22 October 1587 and dead in Hamburg on 23 September 1657, was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science. He studied metaphysics at Rostock and Giessen, where he took his degree in 1608, and from 1609 was professor of mathematics at Giessen. In 1614 and 1615 he took part with Wolfgang Ratke and Christoph Helvig in studies of educational reform, and after returning to Rostock to study medicine he took his medical doctorate at Padua under Santorio Santorio in 1619. In 1622 at Rostock he founded an early scientific society, the Societas Ereunetica sive Zetetica, and from 1624 to 1628 he was professor of mathematics at Rostock. From 1629 until 1657 he was professor of natural sciences at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Hamburg. He believed that science was based on mathematics and that mathematics and logic served as a remedy for metaphysical and mystical speculation.