Johann Samuel König (31 July 1712 – 21 August 1757) was a German mathematician.

Johann Bernoulli instructed both König and Pierre Louis Maupertuis as pupils during the same period.

[1] König is remembered largely for his disagreements with Leonhard Euler, concerning the principle of least action.

[2] He is also remembered as a tutor to Émilie du Châtelet, one of the few female physicists of the 18th century.

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