Franco Burgersdijk

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Franco Petri Burgersdijk or Franciscus Burgersdicius, born Franck Pieterszoon Burgersdijk, (3 May 1590, De Lier - 19 February 1635, Leiden), was a Dutch logician.

Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 References 4 Notes

[edit] Life

He was a student of Jacchaeus (Gilbert Jack).^[1] Burgersdijk finished his studies at the University of Leiden in 1610. He left to further study theology at the University of Saumur, where he became professor of philosophy in 1614. After five years he returned to Leiden, where he accepted the chair of logic and moral philosophy, and afterwards that of natural philosophy.

[edit] Works

His Logic was at one time widely used, and is still valuable. He wrote also Idea Philosophiae Moralis (1644).

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• Egbert P. Bos, Franco Burgersdijk (1590-1635). Neo-aristotelian in Leiden., Editions Rodopi 1993, ISBN 9051833741.

[edit] Notes

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