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Jakob Thomasius ( la, Jacobus Thomasius; 27 August 1622 – 9 September 1684) was a German academic philosopher and jurist. He is now regarded as an important founding figure in the scholarly study of the history of philosophy. His views were eclectic, and were taken up by his son
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Thomasius' Neurotree profile
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Translation of Thomasius's critique of Spinoza
1622 births 1684 deaths German philosophers Heads of schools in Germany 17th-century German writers 17th-century philosophers St. Thomas School, Leipzig teachers 17th-century German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub
Jakob Thomasius ( la, Jacobus Thomasius; 27 August 1622 – 9 September 1684) was a German academic philosopher and jurist. He is now regarded as an important founding figure in the scholarly study of the history of philosophy. His views were eclectic, and were taken up by his son Christian Thomasius
Christian Thomasius (1 January 1655 – 23 September 1728) was a German jurist and philosopher.
Biography
He was born in Leipzig and was educated by his father, Jakob Thomasius (1622–1684), at that time a junior lecturer in Leipzig Universi ...
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Work
Thomasius was influential in the contemporary realignment of philosophy as a discipline. Martin Mulsow writes: He wrote on a wide range of topics, including plagiarism and theeducation of women
Female education is a catch-all term of a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. It is frequently called girl ...
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He was the teacher of Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathem ...
at the University of Leipzig
Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...
, where Thomasius was professor of Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, remaining a friend and correspondent, and has been described as Leibniz's mentor.
He is perhaps best remembered now as the author of the first published attack on Spinoza
Baruch (de) Spinoza (born Bento de Espinosa; later as an author and a correspondent ''Benedictus de Spinoza'', anglicized to ''Benedict de Spinoza''; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, ...
's Theological-Political Treatise.
Bibliography
*''Philosophia practica'' (1661) *''Schediasma historicum'' (1665) *''De foeminarum eruditione'' (1671) with Johannes Sauerbrei and Jacobus Smalcius *''Praefationes sub auspicia disputationum suarum'' (1681) *''Dissertationes ad stoicae philosophiae'' (1682) *''Orationes'' (1683)Notes
Further reading
*Richard Sachse, ''Das Tagebuch des Rectors Jakob Thomasius'', Leipzig 1894.External links
*Mathematics Genealogy Project
Thomasius' Neurotree profile
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Translation of Thomasius's critique of Spinoza
1622 births 1684 deaths German philosophers Heads of schools in Germany 17th-century German writers 17th-century philosophers St. Thomas School, Leipzig teachers 17th-century German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub