Bartholomew the Boss

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Bartholomäus des Bosses (born August 29, 1668 in Chaineux , Province of Liège ; † April 17, 1738 in Cologne ) was a Jesuit who was made known by his correspondence with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who between January 25, 1706 and May 29, 1716 mainly concerned philosophical and theological questions.

After joining the order in 1686, he studied rhetoric , mathematics, philosophy and theology in Cologne . He taught philosophy and theology at the Jesuit High School Mariano-Josephinum in Hildesheim . In January 1706 he first visited Leibniz in Hanover, who also came to Hildesheim several times. He enabled Leibniz to contact the China missionary Father Nicolas Cima SJ. In 1709, the boss was recalled to the Tricoronatum grammar school in Cologne to teach mathematics. There he received his doctorate in theology in 1711, transferred to Paderborn in the same year to teach philosophy again, and in 1713 he returned to Cologne and taught there until his death.

A key issue in the correspondence was the denominationally extremely controversial theodicy problem , on which Leibniz published the Essais de Théodicée ... in Amsterdam in 1710 , which Bosses translated into Latin. They appeared under the title Godefridi Guilelmi Leibnitii Tentamina Theodicaeae de bonitate Dei, libertate hominis et origine mali latine versa ... 1719, without revealing the boss's name, presumably to protect him from Catholic attacks in the order.

The boss also corresponded with the Leibnizian Christian Wolff .

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SURNAME Bosses, Bartholomew's
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch religious
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Chaineux , Liege Province
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1738
Place of death Cologne