Peter Lauremberg
Peter Lauremberg (26 August 1585 – 13 May 1639) was a writer, professor and rector at the University of Rostock in the seventeenth century. Life. Son of another professor, Wilhelm Lauremberg, Peter Lauremberg was born in Rostock in 1585, and like his father before him he studied medicine and astronomy at Rostock, where he earned his Master's degree in 1607. The following year he began his medical studies at Leiden. He travelled in Belgium and France, tutoring, and in 1611 took out his Doctor of Medicine in Paris. His first university appointment was at the University of Montauban  where he taught philosophy. Three years later he left France to return home and take up a position teaching mathematics and physics at the Hamburg . Like his younger brother , he was drawn to poetry, and in 1624 became professor of poetry, mathematics and medicine at the University of Rostock, where he was elected rector in 1635. He remained in Rostock until his death in 1639. Publications. Peter Lauremberg's academic interests were versatile, and he wrote a large number of books on a wide variety of topics, in addition to nearly 700 articles in his "Kuriositäten-Anthologie", the first of  its kind in the German language. He produced an encyclopedia in 1633 under the name "Pansophia, sive Paedia Philosophica", disseminating the term "Pansophia" which was adopted by Comenius as a term for his proposed movement to unify science and religion.