Oldenburg, HENRY

Oldenburg, HENRY, a native of Bremen, born in 1626, was consul for his native city in London during the period of the Long Parliament and the protectorship of Cromwell. Besides being tutor to Lord Henry O'Brien and Lord William Cavendish, he was elected one of the very first members of the Royal Society, and, as assistant-secretary, edited its Transactions from 1664 to 1677, maintaining an extensive correspondence with Spinoza, Leibnitz, Bayle, and many other learned men of the age. Milton also knew him, and addressed him in the Epistolæ Familiares. Oldenburg died at Charlton, near Greenwich, in August 1678.