Heinrich Köhler (philosopher)

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Heinrich Köhler (born May 29, 1685 in Weißenfels ; † 1737 ) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Jena . Köhler translated Leibniz 's monadology from French into German and translated the correspondence between Leibniz and Samuel Clarke .

Köhler studied at the University of Leipzig with Andreas Rüdiger and in Halle. From 1720 he held lectures in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Jena. In 1734 he was appointed professor of philosophy. His students include the philosophers Friedrich Christian Baumeister and Caspar Jacob Huth and the theologian Johann Ernst Schubert .

Iuris socialis et gentium ad ius naturale revocati specimina , 1735

His work Iuris naturalis ... , which was published in Jena , was placed on the index of forbidden books by decree of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1747 .

Only lecture notes of his courses in Jena have been preserved.

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Translations

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: theorems about monadology . Transferred by Heinrich Köhler. Frankfurt u. Leipzig: Johann Meyer 1720.
This translation, for which Köhler also chose the title, was revised by the theologian Caspar Jacob Huth and re-edited under the title Theorems of the Monads and of the Beautiful Correspondence between the Realm of Nature and the Realm of Grace. Printed in: Des Freiherrn von Leibniz smaller philosophical writings . Jena: Meyer 1740.
  • Merckworthy writings which. . . between Mr. Baron von Leibniz and Mr. D. Clarke on special matters of natural religion in French. and English language changed and. . . published in German by Heinrich Kohler . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1720.
The original edition, entitled A Collection of Papers, which passed between the late Learned Mr. Leibniz, and Dr. Clarke, In the Years 1715 and 1716 , eds. by Samuel Clarke DD was printed by James Knapton in London in 1717.
Köhler's translation appeared with a foreword by Christian Wolff and was translated into Latin in 1740.

literature

  • Thomas Strobach: Perspectivity and Realism . Section 3. Two lawyers: Leibniz and his translator Heinrich Köhler. Lecture Saarbrücken 2007. [1]
  • Jürgen Stolzenberg, Oliver-Pierre Rudolph (Ed.): Christian Wolff and the European Enlightenment . Files from the 1st International Christian Wolff Congress, Halle (Saale). Hildesheim 2007-2010
  • Stefan Lorenz: De mundo optimo. Chapter III.2. Stuttgart 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Lorenz: De mundo optimo. Stuttgart 1997. p. 160.
  2. ↑ Köhler, Heinrich. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 487 (French, digitized ).
  3. ^ Heinrich Koehler: Collegium logicum, 1733-1734
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH 1737