Bartholomäus Keckermann

Bartholomäus Keckermann

Bartholomäus Keckermann (* around 1572 in Danzig ; † August 25 (or July) 1608 there ) was a German Reformed theologian and philosopher . He became known for his analytical method .

Life

Bartholomäus Keckermann grew up as the son of the businessman Georg Keckermann in the sectarian disputes in his hometown on the side of the Reformed . He studied at the University of Wittenberg since May 4, 1590 , enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1592 and switched to the University of Heidelberg on October 22, 1592 , where he obtained the degree of master's degree on February 17, 1595 . He then worked as a teacher at the Heidelberg Pedagogy , moved to the Heidelberg Collegium Sapientiae in 1597, and in this task prepared young people for attending colleges . He read about logic.

In 1600 he was given the chair of the Hebrew language at Heidelberg University . He also gave private lectures on dogmatics . After he received his doctorate on March 23, 1602 , he followed a call to the Academic Gymnasium Gdansk , where he devoted himself to scientific subjects as vice rector.

Keckermann is considered to be the founder of the “analytical method”, which aims at the encyclopedic order of the available knowledge, in the symbiosis of theology and philosophy. He took up the knowledge theories of Rudolf Agricola , Philipp Melanchthon , Giacomo Zabarella and Petrus Ramus by combining them into a rationally defined system. The analytical method developed as a basic science for all sciences and was the prototype of science at that time. The combination of methodological awareness and the empirical accumulation of knowledge exerted a significant influence on the encyclopedic literature of the subsequent period.

Selection of works

• Systema compendiosum totius mathematices, 1602;
• Systema disciplinae politicae, 1606;
• Systema logicae minus, 1606;
• Contemplatio gemina de loco et terra motu, 1607;
• Systema politicae et oeconomiae, 1607;
• Disputationes politicae, 1608;
• Apparatus practicus sive idea methodica et plena totius philosophiae practicae, 1609;
• Scientiae Metaphysicae Systema, 1609;
• Systema Ethicum, 1610;
• Systema astronomiae compendiosum, 1611;
• Systema geographicum, 1612, 21616;
• Systema logicae plenioris, 1612, 21625, 31628;
• Systema physicum, 1612;
• Systema praeceptorum logicorum, 1613;
• Systema systematum, 2 vol., 1613;

literature

• Heinrich Holtzmann :  Keckermann, Bartholomäus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 518.
• Joachim Staedtke:  Keckermann, Bartholomäus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 388 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Keckermann, Barthol. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 15, Leipzig 1737, column 373 f.
• Erich Wenneker:  KECKERMANN, Bartholomäus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 1280-1283.
• Emil Menke-Glückert: The history of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Bodin and the justification of the historical methodology by Bartholomäus Keckermann . Osterwieck 1912. Reprinted Leipzig 1971
• Paul Althaus: The principles of the German reformed dogmatics in the age of Aristotelian scholasticism . Leipzig 1916. Reprint Darmstadt 1967
• WH van Zuylen: Bartholomäus Keckermann - His life and work . Borna-Leipzig 1934.
• Theodor Schieder: Letters sources on the political intellectual history of West Prussia
• 9 letters from Keckermann. In: Altpreußische Forschungen Jg. 18 (1941), pp. 262–275
• Otto Weber: God's faithfulness. Collected essays . Neunkirchen 1968, pp. 138-141
• F. Goedcking: The politics of ..., Bartholomäus Keckermann dissertation . Heidelberg 1972
• Manfred Büttner: The Geographia Generalis before Varenius . Wiesbaden 1973, pp. 172-205
• Arno Seifert: Cognitio Historica. The story as the namesake of the early modern empiricism . Berlin 1976, p. 96
• Walter Spam: Return of Metaphysics. The ontological question in Lutheran theology of the early 17th century. Stuttgart 1976
• Wilhelm Kühlmann: Scholars' Republic and Princely State . Tübingen 1982.
• Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann : Topica Universalis . Hamburg 1983, p. 89
• Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich: 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
• Danilo Facca: Bartłomiej Keckerman i filozofia . Wydawnictwo PAN, Warszawa 2005, 285 p. (Habilitation thesis).

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library