Henry Oldenburg ( c1619 - 1677 )

Birth: Free and imperial city of Bremen (c.1619) Death: Pall Mall, London, England, Europe (5 September 1677) Burial: St Mary the Virgin, Bexley, England, Europe (7 September 1677) Occupation: Administrator Publisher Translator Education: Paedegogium Bremen (-1633); Gymnasium illustre in Bremen (MTh 1639); Oxford (entered 1656) Career: Tutor to variety of both royalist and parliamentary men across Europe and England (1641-1653); Envoy to England to negotiate recognition of Bremen's neutrality (1653); Tutor to the Honywood family in Kent (1654-1655); Tutor to Henry, son of Barnabas O'Brien, 6th Earl of Thomond, and Richard Jones (FRS 1663), son of Robert Boyle's sister, Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1656); accompanied Jones to France and Germany (1657-1660); acted as publisher to Robert Boyle; published 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' (1665-1677); imprisoned in the Tower of London on suspicion that his extensive foreign correspondence was political, rather than scientific (20 June 1667-26 August 1667); worked as a translator (1670) Membership: Original Fellow Election Date: 22/04/1663 Council: Secretary 1663-1677 Editor of 'Philosophical Transactions' 1665-1677 Committee appointments include: Committee to consider of Mr Buckland's proposition to plant potatoes through all the parts of England (1662) Committee for Correspondence (c.1664) Committee for Agriculture [Georgics] (c.1664) Mechanical Committee (c.1664).