# Leibniz takes a doctorate in law at Altdorf after Leipzig studies and combinatorial print

Date: 1667

## The fact

After Leipzig studies, Leibniz received a doctorate in law at Altdorf in February 1667, following De Arte Combinatoria (1666). It is not the 1684 calculus paper.

It is one event.

## Context

Britannica and the Akademie-Ausgabe portal independently date the Leipzig–Altdorf opening. Later school use of combinatorics is reception. He did not staff a modern computer-science faculty.

[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz](/people/gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional years are 1646–1716. Surviving public files are GWLB Nachlass pages, the Akademie-Ausgabe, SEP, and encyclopedias. Leibniz did not typeset those later pages. Later electronic computers are not this life.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

The Akademie-Ausgabe portal and Britannica independently describe the Altdorf doctorate and 1666 combinatorial print.

Official or archival record: Leibniz-Edition — Akademie-Ausgabe portal (https://www.leibnizedition.de/; Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities / Göttingen Academy).

## Significance

Education-access path. High confidence on the degree year.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Altdorf 1667 after Leipzig and 1666 print. Not established: a unique modern computing welfare path from 1666.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

They are not a public rating.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct.

## People

- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: https://factrail.ai/people/gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz
- https://www.leibnizedition.de/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gwl-altdorf-1667