Abstract
I N the preface to his Erste Griinde der gesammten Weltweisheit (I 734) Gottsched gives a brief account of his own philosophical development. During his student years in Konigsberg (1714-24) he attended lectures on Aristotelian, Thomist, and Cartesian philosophy; he studied the works of the philosopher J. Ch. Sturm (1653-1703), of the Swiss naturalist J. J. Scheuchzer (1672-1733), and of many French, Dutch, and English \vriters; he read Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Inevitably the endeavour to comprehend so many divergent and contradictory ideas led to complete confusion. Then in 1719 Gottsched became acquainted with the works of Leibniz and Wolff, and in these works he found the certainty \vhich had up to that time eluded him:
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