Otto Mencke (; ; 22 March 1644 – 18 January 1707) was a 17th-century German

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Mencke obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in August 1666 with a thesis entitled: ''Ex Theologia naturali – De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam''. He is notable as being the founder of the very first scientific journal in Germany, established 1682, entitled ''

Acta Eruditorum (from Latin: ''Acts of the Erudite'') was the first scientific journal of the German-speaking lands of Europe, published from 1682 to 1782. History ''Acta Eruditorum'' was founded in 1682 in Leipzig by Otto Mencke, who became its first edit ...

.'' He was a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Leipzig, but is more famous for his scientific genealogy that produced a fine lineage of mathematicians that includes notables such as Carl Friedrich Gauss and David Hilbert. The Mathematics Genealogy Project database records more than 102,000 () mathematicians and other scientists in his lineage. The Philosophy Family Tree records 535 philosophers in his lineage .

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and Mencke were in correspondence in 1693.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mencke, Otto 1644 births 1707 deaths People from Oldenburg (city) 17th-century German philosophers 18th-century German philosophers German male writers