Detlev Clüver

Detlev Clüver (* around 1645 in Schleswig ; † February 21, 1708 in Hamburg ) was a German mathematician , astronomer and philosopher .

Life

Detlev Clüver was born around 1645 as the son of Peter Clüver (1620-1653), riding bailiff of the cathedral chapter in Schleswig, and his wife Mette. After his father died in 1653, his mother married the cathedral preacher Theodor Niemann (1601–1666). As Niemann's stepson, Clüver attended the cathedral school in Schleswig .

On May 13, 1663, he enrolled at the University of Jena , where he studied theology, philosophy and mathematics and, in particular, attended lectures by Erhard Weigel . In 1667 he went to Kiel, where he enrolled on May 17, 1667 at the Kiel University, which was newly founded in 1665, and in 1673 obtained his master's degree. In the meantime, Clüver was studying at Oxford University (matriculated on November 29, 1670).

After his studies he went on an educational trip that led him in particular to Rome , Venice and finally to London , where he lived until 1688. In November 1678 he had become a member of the Royal Society in London , had opened a printing house that served the publication of his own works, and began his correspondence with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , in which, among other things, mathematical questions, for example on infinite series and the beginnings of the Calculus .

An inheritance dispute caused him to leave London in 1688 and return to Schleswig. The lawsuit was never closed and consumed large parts of his fortune. In 1696 Clüver moved to Hamburg, where he tried to make a living from his writings and died penniless and unnoticed in 1708.

Fonts

• Lettre de Mr. Detlef Cluver à Mr. Leibnitz. In: Joachim Friedrich Feller (Ed.): Otivm Hanoveranvm Sive Miscellanea Ex ore & schedis Illustris Viri, piæ memoriæ, Godofr. Gvilielmi Leibnitii [...]. Leipzig 1718 ( digitized version ), pp. 57–58
• Detlev Clüver: Philosophia divina Cluveri or detailed report of those new inventions and demonstration bus [...]. For better understanding, published by A. E [udoxus]. Leipzig 1712
• Salomon Trismosin : Aureum Vellus or Guldin Treasure and Art Chamber [...]. With a preface Dethl. Cluveri. Hamburg 1708
• Detlev Clüver: Observatio de conjunctione Solis et Mercurii, d. 5. Maji Ao. 1707 visa. In: Nova literaria Hamburgensica, June 1707, p. 216
• Detlev Clüver: Disquisitiones philosophicae, Or historical notes about the most useful things in the world [...]. Vol. 1 and 2, Hamburg 1707 and 1711
• Detlev Clüver: Vindiciae Artis Mnemonicae [...]. In: Nova literaria Hamburgensica, October 1705, pp. 394–399
• Detlev Clüver: Nova Crisis Temporum or Curieuser Philosophical World Mercurius [...]. Hamburg 1701-1703
• Detlev Clüver: Geologia Sive Philosophemata De Genesi Ac Structura Globi Terreni. Or: Natural science / Of the creation and preparation of the globe [...]. Hamburg 1700
• Detlev Clüver: Methodus infinitorum similium [...]. In: Nova literaria maris Balthici & septentrionis, October 1698, pp. 188-195
• Detlev Clüver: Nova Infinitorum Scientia [...]. In: Nova literaria maris Balthici & septentrionis, September 1698, pp. 165-171
• Detlev Clüver: Coelum Caesaris Or brief explanation of the heavenly figure / As well as the naming of the stars / lines and circles / so on the embossed Käyserlichen birth medal. Hamburg 1697
• Detlev Clüver: Monitum ad geometras. In: Acta Eruditorum, October 1687, pp. 585-588
• Detlev Clüver: Quadratura circuli infinitis modis demonstrata. In: Acta Eruditorum, July 1686, pp. 369-371
• Detlev Clüver: Tabulae astronomicae in Moses Maimonides librum de consecratione calendarum et ratione intercalandi [...] London 1683
• Detlev Clüver: Epistolae duo ad Johannem Hevelium. In: Excerpta ex literis illustrium, et clarissimorum virorum, Ad [...] Johannem Hevelium [...]. Danzig 1683 ( doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-2050 )

literature

• Karl Christian Bruhns:  Clüver, Detlev . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 351 f.
• Enrico Pasini : Correspondents from GW Leibniz: 12. Detlev Clüver. In: Studia Leibnitiana, Vol. 26, Issue 1 (1994), pp. 108-124.
• Reinhard Breymayer : Erhard Weigel's pupil Detlev Clüver and his influence on Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702-1782) - On the key role of the Sindring calendar dispute of 1744. In: Katharina Habermann, Klaus-Dieter Herbst (ed.): Erhard Weigel (1625−1699) and his students. Göttingen 2016 ( Online ), pp. 269–323, especially p. 309 f.
• Reinhard Breymayer: Astronomy, calendar dispute and love theology. From Erhard Weigel and his student Detlev Clüver to Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and Philipp Matthäus Hahn to Friedrich Schiller, Johann Andreas Streicher , Franz Joseph Graf von Thun and Hohenstein , Mozart and Beethoven. In memory of the prominent Oetinger researcher Guntram Spindler (1940-2014) and the prominent Enlightenment researcher Reinhard Aulich (1947-2016). [Motto:] Brothers - a dear father must live above the stars. SCHILLER. Dußlingen: Noûs-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck 2016. - ISBN 978-3-924249-58-8 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Detlev Clüver in VD 17 .
• Works by and about Detlev Clüver  in the German Digital Library