Christoph Scheibler

Christoph Scheibler (1589 to 1653) was a German philosopher, classical philologist, Lutheran theologian and metaphysician, born at Armsfeld and died at Dortmund. From 1610 he was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Giessen, and in 1625 he was appointed Superintendent, a post equivalent to bishop. His works include the Opus metaphysicum of 1617, an Introductio logicae of 1618, an Epitome logica of 1624, a book on the soul of 1627, a Liber commentariorum topicorum on logical places and arguments of 1653, and a Philosophia compendiosa covering logic, metaphysics, physics, geometry, astronomy, optics, ethics, politics and economics, published in 1671. His descendants became a prominent family of academics and industrialists in western Germany near the Belgian border, and several were ennobled.