Acta Eruditorum (from Latin: Acts of the Erudite) was the first scientific journal of the German-speaking lands of Europe, published from 1682 to 1782.

[1] Acta Eruditorum was founded in 1682 in Leipzig by Otto Mencke, who became its first editor,[1] with support from Gottfried Leibniz in Hanover,[2] who contributed 13 articles over the journal's first four years.

[3] It was published by Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, with sponsorship from the Duke of Saxony, and was patterned after the French Journal des savants and the Italian Giornale de'letterati.

The journal was published monthly, entirely in Latin, and contained excerpts from new writings, reviews, small essays and notes.

Most of the articles were devoted to the natural sciences and mathematics, including contributions (apart from Leibniz) from, e.g., Jakob Bernoulli, Humphry Ditton, Leonhard Euler, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Jérôme Lalande, but also from humanists and philosophers such as Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, Stephan Bergler, Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff.