Clemens Timpler (1563 – 28 February 1624) was a
German
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philosopher
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,
physicist
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and
theologian
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.
Along with
Jakob Degen (1511–1587), he is considered an important
Protestant
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metaphysician
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, establishing the Protestant Reformed
''Neuscholastik''.
Life
Timpler was born in
Stolpen
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Burg Stolpen
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. In 1600 he joined
Bartholomew Keckermann studying philosophy at
Leipzig
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. In April 1595, he became professor of physics at
Gymnasium Arnoldinum, a high school in
Steinfurt
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Geography
Steinfurt is situated north- ...
. He taught there until his death.
Publications
* ''Metaphysicae systema methodicum'' Steinfurt 1604
* ''Physicae Seu Philosophiae Naturalis Systema Methodicum'', Hannover 1605
* ''Clementis Timpleri Technologia seu tractatus generalis de natura et differentiis artium liberalium; die gloria Dei als schlechthin letztes Ziel aller techne in Theorem 9.
* ''Exercitationum Philosophicarum Sectiones X : In Quibus Quaestiones Selectae Et Utiles, Praesertim Metaphysicae, ultra quadringentas, accurate & dilucide discutiuntur & enodantur'' Hannover: Antonius 1618
* ''Theoria Physica, De Sensu In Genere : Certis Thesibus comprehensa.'' Steinfurt: Caesar 1616
Further reading
* Karl Eschweiler: ''Die Philosophie der spanischen Spätscholastik auf den deutschen Universitäten des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts.'', Münster: Aschendorff 1928 (Spanische Forschungen der Görres-Gesellschaft I), S. 251-325
Digitalisat
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''European Academic Philosophy in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries the Life, Significance and Philosophy of Clemens Timpler (1563/4-1624)'', Hildesheim 1988 ,
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''Die Karriere und Bedeutung von Clemens Timpler (1563/64-1624)'' In: ''Porträts aus vier Jahrhunderten Arnoldinum, Steinfurt'', Greven 1988, 69-77
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''Aristotelianism and Humanism in Late Reformation German Philosophy: The Case of Clemens Timpler, 1563/64-1624''. In ''The Harvest of German Humanism. Papers in Honor of Lewis W. Spitz''. Edited by Fleischer Manfred. St. Louis: Concordia Press 1992, 213-232
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''The Soul ("anima") according to Clemens Timpler (1563/64-1624) and Some of his Central European Contemporaries'', Wiesbaden 2004, 791-830
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''Necessity, Contingency, Impossibility, Possibility, and Modal Enunciations within the Writings of Clemens Timpler (1563/4-1624)''. In Spätrenaissance-Philosophie in Deutschland 1570-1650. Entwürfe zwischen Humanismus und Konfessionalisierung, okkulten Traditionen und Schulmetaphysik. Edited by Mulsow Martin. Berlin: de Gruyter 2009, 293-318
* Albert Röser: ''Clemens Timpler und die Metaphysik.'' In: (ibid) ''Porträts aus vier Jahrhunderten Arnoldinum, Steinfurt'' Steinfurt 1988, 76-83
* Max Wundt: ''Der Deutsche Schulmetaphysik des 17 Jahrhunderts'', Tübingen, 1939, 75 ss.
External links
* ttp://www.ontology.co/biblio/joseph-freedman.htm Bibliography of Joseph S. Freedman on Philosophy in Central Europe (1500-1700)contains abstract of the publications on Timpler
1563 births
1624 deaths
People from Stolpen
17th-century German philosophers
17th-century German scientists
German male writers
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