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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | |
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| Born | 1 July [O.S. 21 June] 1646 Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire |
| Died | 14 November 1716 (aged 70) Hanover, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire |
| Alma mater | Old Nicholas School Leipzig University (BA, 1662; MA, 1664; LLB, 1665; Dr. phil. hab., 1666) University of Jena (1663) University of Altdorf (Dr. jur., 1666) |
| School tradition | Pluralistic idealism Rationalism |
| Nationality | German |
| Language | Albanian English French German Greek Latin |
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz[a][b] (1 July [O.S. 21 June] 1646 in Leipzig – 14 November 1716 in Hanover) was a German rationalist philosopher, mathematician, diplomat, jurist, linguist, historian, and theologian who invented calculus independently of Isaac Newton.
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- ↑ Also rendered as Leibnitz or Leibnütz. Sometimes anglicised as Godfrey William von Leibniz. French: Godefroid-Guillaume Leibniz or Godefroy Guillaume Leibnitz; Latin: Godefridus Guilielmus Leibnitius.
- ↑ Leibniz sometimes referred to himself as von Leibniz and used the title of nobility Freiherr, but he was never actually ennobled.