Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof was a German physician, mathematician, and writer on music. He was born in Heidenheim, Mittelfranken; his parents were Johann Georg Mizler, court clerk to the Margrave of Ansbach at Heidenheim, and Barbara Stumpf, of St Gallen. According to his autobiography, his first teacher was N. Müller, a minister from Obersulzbach, and learnt the flute and violin. From 1724 to 1730, he studied at the Ansbach Gymnasium with Rector Oeder and Johann Matthias Gesner, who became director of the Thomasschule zu Leipzig from 1731 to 1734. He enrolled at Leipzig University on 30 April 1731, and chiefly studied theology; his teachers included Gesner, Johann Christoph Gottsched, and Christian Wolff. He took a bachelor's degree in December 1733 and a master's degree in March 1734