Samuel Hartlib

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Samuel Hartlieb (ca. 1600 - 1662) better known in English as Samuel Hartlib, was a scientist and teacher.

Hartlib was born in Elbing (Elbląg) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia. He studied at the Gymnasium of Brieg, Königsberg University, and briefly at the University of Cambridge in England. In 1628, he went to England from Elbing. He became one of the best-connected intellectual figures, and the 'Hartlib circle' of contacts and correspondents was one of the foundations of the Royal Society of London which was established a generation later in 1660.

He also put much effort into getting Comenius of the Protestant Moravian Brethren to visit England. His letters, in German and English, have been the subject of close modern scholarship. He married and settled permanently in England, where he died.

Hartlib set out with the goal "To record all human knowledge and to make it universally available for the education of all mankind".

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