Peter Lauremberg (26 August 1585 – 13 May 1639) was a writer, professor and rector at the University of Rostock in the seventeenth century.
He travelled in Belgium and France, tutoring, and in 1611 took out his Doctor of Medicine in Paris.
Three years later he left France to return home and take up a position teaching mathematics and physics at the Hamburg Akademische Gymnasium.
Peter Lauremberg's academic interests were versatile, and he wrote a large number of books on a wide variety of topics, in addition to nearly 700 articles in his Kuriositäten-Anthologie, the first of its kind in the German language.
He produced an encyclopedia in 1633 under the name Pansophia, sive Paedia Philosophica, disseminating the term Pansophia which was adopted by Comenius as a term for his proposed movement to unify science and religion.