Hartwig Wichelmann
Hartwig Wichelmann (born March 5, 1612 in Lüneburg , † February 27, 1647 in Königsberg ) was a German Aristotelian philosopher. He worked as rector of the old town school and university lecturer in Königsberg.
Life
Wichelmann grew up in Lüneburg. His father was Samuel Wichelmann, rector at the Johanneum Lüneburg , his mother Elisabeth Wippermann, both of whom came from established middle-class families in Lüneburg. After school in Lüneburg and a year at the grammar school in Hamburg , he studied from 1632 at the Albertus University of Königsberg with a stopover at the University of Rostock and received his master's degree in Königsberg in April 1638. He stayed at the university and gave highly regarded philosophical lectures there until he became rector of the old town high school there in 1646 .
Wichelmann laid the foundation for the philosophical orientation of the Königsberg University by teaching an Aristotelianism based on the original writings thanks to his excellent knowledge of Greek. In his follow-up were Christian Dreier and Melchior Zeidler . Before he could carry out his planned marriage and take up a prospective full professorship at the university, he died in Königsberg at the age of 34. Simon Dach then wrote a poem in Wichelmann's honor, in which it says:
- The sage of Stagir would also have disappeared from all the world; / One would have found the same again in his head here /; / And in the basic language everything is true / He would not think of those / who are serfs / get used to interpretation.
Works
- Doctrina metaphysica de sapientia prima de sex vulgo dictis conditionibus sapientia et de objectis ejus. Response from Balthasar Frisius . Reusner, Königsberg 1641. (Wichelmann's dissertation; digitized version of the SLUB Dresden)
- Hartvici Wichelmanni Luneburgensis Philosophi quondam Regiomontani Clarissimi Analytica Sive doctrina De Demonstratione . Müller, Helmstedt 1679. (Digital copy from the Wolfenbüttel HAB )
- Dialectica Regiomontana, Hoc est, Compendium Topicorum Aristotelis (...) . Müller, Helmstedt 1680. (Author is probably Wichelmann; digitized version from HAB Wolfenbüttel)
literature
- Martin Wolder: Leich-Sermon from the death word of Jesus our Heylands / Luc. 23rd v. 46. Bey Volckreichem burial Deß Woll Ehrenvesten / VorAchtbahren and Wollgelahrten Mr. M. Hartwici Wichelmanni, noble Philosophi, and at that time of the old town parish schools in Koenigsberg were busy rectoris (...) . Reusner, Königsberg 1647. (Funeral sermon from March 3, 1647 with Wichelmann's curriculum vitae; digitized from SUB Goettingen)
- Max Wundt : The German School Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment. Mohr, Tübingen 1945, p. 118 .
- Georg Christoph Pisanski : Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Edited by Rudolf Philippi, Hartungsche Druckerei, Königsberg 1886, p. 258, § 161 and p. 286 f., § 180 .
Web links
- Portraits of Wichelmann in the digital portrait index
- Wichelmann's personal entry in the Post-Reformation Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. 7th volume, self-published, Boppard 1972, p. 415 .
- ^ Georg Christoph Pisanski: The study of philosophy in Prussia in the 17th century. In: Neue Prussische Provinzial-Blätter 10 (1850), pp. 300-312 (1st part), here p. 302 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wichelmann, Hartwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wichelmann, Hartwich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1612 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luneburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1647 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg |