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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Biography MathSciNet

Dr. phil. Universität Leipzig 1666 $Germany$

Dissertation: Disputatio arithmetica de complexionibus

Advisor 1: Jakob Thomasius
Advisor 2: Erhard Weigel

Dr. jur. Universität Altdorf 1667 $Germany$

Dissertation: Disputatio Inauguralis De Casibus Perplexis In Jure

Advisor 1: Bartholomäus Leonhard Schwendendörffer

Académie royale des sciences de Paris 1676 $France$

Dissertation:

Advisor 1: Christiaan Huygens

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Nicolas Malebranche		1672	64469
Christian von Wolff	Universität Leipzig	1703	3320

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