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. 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.
Isaac Newton and Mencke were in correspondence in 1693. ==Legacy==