- First name
- Franco Petri
- Last name
- Burgersdijck
- Date of Birth
- 1590
- Date of Death
- 1635
- Born in
- De Lier
- Died in
- Leiden
Franco Petri Burgersdijck was a neo-Aristotelian logician who studied in Leiden (1610) and Saumur (1614). He held the Leiden chair of logic (1619), and taught ethics (1620–8) and physics (1628–35). Burgerdijck’s eclecticism is shown in his efforts to combine the Peripatetic philosophy with the humanist tenets of men like French logician and reformer Petrus Ramus. His fame especially rests upon Institutionum logicarum libri duo … (Leiden, 1626; repr., 1637, 1648, 1651, 1653) and on Institutionum metaphysicarum libri duo … (Leiden, 1640; repr., 1651, 1653, 1657 and 1675). Both treatises, standard reading material in logic, moral philosophy, and politics for students (cf. Weststeijn, 2012, pp. 31–2), were extensively studied by Spinoza. See: NNBW, vol. 7, cols 229–30; DDP, vol. 1, pp. 181–90; CCS, pp. 60–2.