Henning Arnisaeus

Henning Arnisaeus ( latinisiert from Arent See or Arens marriage ; * to 1575 in Schlanstedt ; † 1636 in Hillerød in Copenhagen ) was a German physician , philosopher and Reich writer .

Life

Arnisaeus studied medicine , history and politics. In Helmstedt he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He was professor of morals at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt before moving to the University of Helmstedt as a professor of medicine in 1613 . In 1620 he became the personal physician of Christian IV (Denmark and Norway) .

Arnisaeus is considered a representative of Aristotelianism .

Reichsstaatslehre

De jure majestatis libri tres (1610)

In his first important work on political theory, Arnisaeus still describes the empire as a monarchy , thereby following the general tenor of the German doctrine of imperial constitutional law at the time. He assumes sovereignty doctrine of Jean Bodin , however, rejects all the early drafts of the concept of dual sovereignty from (his full development takes place this until 1620 Arumaeus ' Discursus academici de iure publico ). According to Arnisaeus, sovereign is the one who actually exercises the highest rulership rights in a state - according to him, the king or emperor. As a result of this premise, the empire should be viewed as a monarchy, since a. in the act of electing a king, all sovereignty is transferred to the rex electus . The imperial estates (and thus also the electors ) appear to him only as magistrates dependent on the emperor and without a share in sovereignty. The sovereignty of the estates does not play a role in the "early" Arnisaeus.

De republica seu relectionis politicae (1615)

In his later work on political theory, his assessment of the imperial constitution changed: with a view to it, he interprets the (later so-called) comitial rights to the effect that the totality of the imperial estates - and thus the aristocratic element of the imperial constitution - is of greater importance. In order to describe the kingdom as a whole, he creates his own theory of the mixed constitution that both Emperor and the Estates incorporates: this theory contains an early conception of the separation of powers , in which the sovereignty of the "Mäjestätsrechte" divided is, with this then distributed among the various instances of the state. In theory, as in the Reich, no part of the constitutional order alone has the highest power , but only all together as a whole. This also explains why no single “state organ” of the empire has sovereign rule. Overall, however, the aristocratic element predominates somewhat in the imperial constitution, which is why he characterizes the empire as a whole and finally as a mixed constitution with an aristocratic focus.

Works

Doctrina politica , reprinted from 1651

• Epitome metaphysices , Frankfurt / Oder 1606. (full title: Epitome metaphysices: in qua fundamenta Aristotelica ordine scientifico explicantur et postea controversiae pleraeque suis deciduntur argumentis ut quam in tot opinionum myriadibus viam ment quisque sequi possit tutissime levi ad omemnia arcositis et omemnia percoteliat ex antiquitate graeca et latina longe secus quam ab hodiernis nonnullis novatoribus fieri solet deducta.ex quibus lector integrae paulo post secuturae metaphysicae conjecturam facere potest )
• Doctrina politica in genuinam methodum, quae est Aristotelis , 1606
• De jure majestatis libri tres Frankfurt / Oder 1610.
• De subjectione et exemtione clericorum : item de potestate temporali pontificis in principes, et denique de translatione imperii Rome .; commentatio politica opposita… potissimum vero libris Robert Bellarmini . Francofurtum (Frankfurt / Oder): J. Thimius, 1612.
• De Autoritate Principum In Populum Semper Inviolabili . Frankfurt / Oder: Thieme, 1612. ( digitized version )
• De Apoplexia cognoscenda et curanda . Helmstedt, Med.Diss. Feb. 19, 1614
• De republica seu relectionis politicae Frankfurt / Oder 1615.
• De universali scientia: quae metaphysica vocatur , Frankfurt / Oder 1624.
• Collected political writings (Leipzig 1633, Strasbourg 1648)

literature

• Horst Denzer : Late Aristotelianism, Natural Law and Imperial Reform: Political Ideas in Germany 1600-1750 . In: Fetscher, Iring / Münkler, Herfried: Piper's manual of political ideas. Volume 3/5, Munich, 1985. pp. 233-274.
• Hans-Jürgen Derda : Arnisaeus (also Arentsehe, Arntsche, Arentsche), Henning . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 52.
• Horst Dreitzel: Protestant Aristotelianism and the absolute state. The “Politica” by Henning Arnisaeus, approx. 1575-1636 . Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1970.
• Marco Antonio Huesbe Llanos: Henning Arnisaeus (approx. 1575 - 1636): Investigations into the influence of the school of Salamanca on the Lutheran state thought in the 17th century . Mainz, Phil. Fac., Diss., 1965.
• Marco Antonio Huesbe Llanos: The constitutional debate "Absolutism vs. Liberalism" in German political science of the 17th century: Johannes Althusius vs. Henning Arnisaeus . In: Jurisprudence, Political Theory and Political Theology: Contributions of the Herborn Symposium on the 400th anniversary of the Politica of Johannes Althusius 1603–2003 (= contributions to political science. Vol. 131). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004, pp. [437] -450.
• Arthur Richter:  Arnisaeus, Henning . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 575.
• Merio Scattola: Arnisaeus, Henning. In: Killy Literature Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Vol. 1 (2008), p. 217 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Henning Arnisaeus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Henning Arnisaeus in VD 17 .
• University of Mannheim