Gottfried Schlueter (theologian)

Gottfried Schlüter (also: Sluterus ; born September 22, 1605 in Göttingen , † March 26, 1666 in Leipzig ) was a German logician and Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the then Göttingen superintendent Gottfried Schlüter the Elder (1567–1637) and his wife Anna von Dransfeld attended the city school in Oldenburg until he was seventeen. In 1622 he returned to Göttingen, where he attended school for two more years. In 1624 he returned to Oldenburg, where he contracted a protracted illness. After his recovery he went to the University of Leipzig at Easter 1627 , where he lived with his brother-in-law Johann Friedrichs and, in addition to his lectures, also heard those of Philipp Müller .

He studied all of Aristotle's physics and ethics. After holding a few disputations, he became a baccalaureus in the philosophical sciences in 1627 . In 1628 he moved to the University of Jena and subsequently to the University of Wittenberg . At the end of 1629 he returned to Leipzig, was awarded a master's degree in philosophy in 1630 and completed a theological degree with Heinrich Höpfner . The Thirty Years' War and illnesses forced him to return to Oldenburg in 1632.

In 1633 he went on an educational trip that took him to the University of Cologne and the University of Leiden . In 1634 he traveled to England. He familiarized himself with Oxford University and Cambridge University as well as with London . From there he went to France to the Sorbonne in Paris and returned to Oldenburg via Antwerp , Brussels and Leiden. He stayed there until he returned to Leipzig in 1638. In the meantime he was a tutor there. In 1640 he was admitted to the theological faculty as a baccalaureus and in 1641 he was admitted to the Leipzig university faculty as an assessor at the philosophical faculty.

In 1644 he was given the professorship for dialectical logic. Associated with this, he received a fellowship at the great prince's college . On November 6, 1645 he was licentiate in theology and in 1651 professor of logic according to Aristotle (Logicae organi Aristotelici). During his time as a university lecturer, Schlüter also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University. In 1651 and 1664 he was procurator of the philosophical faculty and in 1661, 1663 and 1665 dean of the philosophical faculty. In the summer semesters of 1649 and 1657 he was rector of the Alma Mater .

His marriage in 1651 to Dorothea Elisabeth († August 14, 1664 in Leipzig), the eldest daughter of the lawyer, councilor and Pfänner in Halle Johann Schäffer, remained childless.

He was buried on March 29th in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig .

Works (selection)

• Dissertatio De Actionibus Moralibus In Genere. Leipzig 1671
• Periculum Philosophicum In Angelorum Consideratione Factum. Leipzig 1654
• Disputatio Philosophica De Viris. Wittenberg 1629
• Comment. Analyte. Super organum Aristotel.

literature

• Elias Sigismund Reinhart: Faith, Hope and Love of ... Gottfried Schlüters The H. Schrifft ... Licentiati, and at the University of Leipzig / the Organi Aristotelici ... Professoris Publici, the praiseworthy Philosophical Faculty Senioris, of the Great Prince Collegii Collegiaten: Bey Dessen's handsome body Begängnüß from His Desired Body Text / Zum Römern on V, 1, 2. declared on March 29th. 1666. In the Pauliner Kirchen / also afterwards submitted for printing upon request. In: Fritz Roth: Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. Vol. 6, p. 46, R 5076
• Schlueter, Gottfried, born in Göttingen. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 35, Leipzig 1743, column 255.

Web link

• Publications by and about Gottfried Schlüter in VD 17 .