Israel Gottlieb Canz

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Portrait of Israel Gottlieb Canz (1738), painting by Wolfgang Dietrich Majer in the Professorengalerie in Tübingen

Israel Gottlieb Canz (born February 26, 1690 in Grüntal-Frutenhof , † January 28, 1753 in Tübingen ) was a German philosopher , Protestant clergyman and theologian .

Life

Israel Gottlieb Canz, who was born in Grüntal (not, as occasionally mentioned, in Heimsheim ) on February 26, 1690 as the third son of the local pastor Christoph Bernhard Canz (1653-1692), was orphaned at the age of almost two years and spent with his Mother, a daughter of the Mayor of Cannstatt , Conrad Menner, grew up in her hometown. From 1706 he studied at the Tübinger Stift , where he was awarded a baccalaureus on April 29, 1707 and received his doctorate on May 15, 1709 as a master of philosophy. He then studied theology (especially the Old Testament ) and philosophy for another five years .

At the theological seminary in Tübingen , Israel Canz became a repetitee in 1714 . In January 1720 he married a daughter of his former theology teacher Johann Eberhard Rösler . The marriage resulted in 17 children, but only four of them survived beyond childhood. Also from 1720 he worked as a deacon in Nürtingen . In the following year he became a preceptor at Bebenhausen Monastery , while he was briefly vicar in Stuttgart . In Nürtingen he was finally appointed both superintendent and pastor in 1733 . As a full professor of eloquence and poetry he was employed at the University of Tübingen in 1734, at the same time he was also Ephorus .

In 1739 he became professor of logic and metaphysics and on May 22, 1747 again of theology. Canz died on January 28, 1753 in Tübingen.

Despite the teaching activity, which cost him a lot of time, Canz was able to publish 20 works, some of them multi-volume, and to supervise 35 dissertations of his students within 25 years . He is considered a pioneer of Wolffianism .

Works (selection)

  • Usus philosophiae Leibnitianae et Wolfianae in theologia (1728)
  • Disciplinae morales omnes (1739)
  • Convincing Reason Evidence Concerning Immortality (1741)
  • Ontologia (1741)
  • Meditationes philosophiae (1750)

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SURNAME Canz, Israel Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canz, Israel Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, evangelical clergyman and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Grüntal-Frutenhof
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1753
Place of death Tübingen