1. Gottfried W. Leibniz Patrice Braswell

3. His family was Lutheran

4. His father, Friedrich Leibniz, was a jurist and professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Leipzig

5. His mother, Catharina Schmuck, the daughter of a professor of Law.

6. Leibniz's father died in 1652

7. His father died when he was only 6

8. Leibniz died in Hanover in 1716

9. Leibniz never married

11. He contributed to the development of the computer

12. He produced the first binary logical number system

13. Invented calculated machine

14. Started the physical law of conservation

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17. References http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/ http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz http://www.answers.com/topic/gottfried-leibniz