Clemens Timpler

Clemens Timpler (* 1563 in Stolpen ; † February 28, 1624 in Steinfurt ) was a German philosopher , physicist and theologian . Next to Jakob Degen he is considered to be the most important Protestant metaphysician ; he founded the Protestant Reformed neo-scholasticism .

Timpler studied philosophy with his fellow student Bartholomäus Keckermann in Leipzig in 1600 .

On April 4, 1595 he became a professor of physics at the Arnoldinum grammar school in Steinfurt and taught there until his death.

Publications

• Metaphysicae systema methodicum Steinfurt 1604
• Physicae Seu Philosophiae Naturalis Systema Methodicum , Hannover 1607
• Clementis Timpleri Technologia seu tractatus generalis de natura et differentiis artium liberalium; the gloria Dei as the ultimate goal of all techne in theorem 9. der technologia. - The metaphysics as ars in Metaphysicae Systema methodicum I. 1. c. 1, qu. 3 (p. 4 pp.) And qu. 12 (p. 17 p.)
• 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
• Opticae Systema Methodicvm Per Theoremata Et Problemata Selecta Concinnatum & duobus libris comprehensum . Hanover 1617 ( digitized version )

literature

• Otto Liebmann:  Timpler, Clemens . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 355.
• M. Wundt: The German School Metaphysics of the 17th Century , Tübingen, 1939, p. 75
• 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) . 2 volumes. Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-487-09012-0 , ISBN 978-3-487-09012-2
• Joseph S. Freedman: Career and Importance of Clemens Timpler (1563 / 64-1624). In: 400 years of Arnoldinum. 1588–1888, Festschrift . Greven 1988, pp. 69-77
• Joseph S. Freedman: The Soul ("anima") according to Clemens Timpler (1563 / 64-1624) and Some of his Central European Contemporaries . In: Scientiae et artes . Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 791-830
• Albert Röser: Clemens Timpler and metaphysics. In: Portraits from four centuries Arnoldinum, Steinfurt . Steinfurt 1988, pp. 76-83
• Lexicon for Theology and Church , 3rd edition, Freiburg, Herder, Vol. 10, Sp. 45f.
• Karl Eschweiler : The philosophy of the Spanish late scholasticism at the German universities of the seventeenth century (= Spanish research of the Görres Society 1). Aschendorff, Münster 1928, pp. 251-325 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Literature by and about Clemens Timpler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Clemens Timpler in VD 17 .