Homo societatis

The term homo societatis emerged from the longing for peace in the time after the Thirty Years' War and connected people who were looking for a new way of living together, bridging national and religious borders. The representatives of this trend belonged partly to Pietism ( August Hermann Francke ), partly to the Enlightenment ( Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ), sometimes even to both.

With his Daniel Waterhouse, the protagonist of the Baroque cycle , Neal Stephenson created a literary figure that can be described as homo societatis and that bridges the gap between the Baroque and our present.

activities

The most important activities of the homo societatis are the founding of informal circles, correspondence, traveling, learning foreign languages, mutual protection , publications, and the founding of magazines and publishing houses.

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• Johann Arndt : Four books on true Christianity. Braunschweig 1606, 1st book 24th chapter ff, quoted above. in:
• Erich Beyreuther: August Hermann Francke and the beginnings of the ecumenical movement. Herbert Reich Evangelischer Verlag, Hamburg 1957