Jacob Wittich

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Jacob Wittich
Dissertatio juridica , 1727 .

Jacob Wittich ( Latinized : Jacobus Wittichius ; born January 11, 1677 in Aachen , † October 18, 1739 in Leiden ) was a German philosopher and mathematician.

Life

Jacob was the son of the former professor of law, rhetoric and rector (1652–1653) at the Academic Gymnasium Duisburg Tobias Wittich. His father later became electoral councilor and agent in Aachen, where Jacob saw the light of day. His father later became resident of the Elector of Brandenburg and is said to have died in Nijmegen in 1689. His father was a brother of the professor of theology at the University of Leiden Christoph Wittich (1625–1687). Both came from a family which had their roots in the Lutheran faith. Jacob's grandfather, Christoph Wittich, experienced the transition from the Brandenburg-Silesian Church to the Reformed Church during the Thirty Years' War, and in order to avoid possible restrictions, he joined the Reformed Confession. In the reformed educational institutions, his children found an emerging new confession, which was influenced by the philosophical natural thinking of René Descartes and shaped by the federal theology of Johannes Coccejus .

These influences also had an effect on Jacob Wittich, who was recorded on September 21, 1693 at the University of Duisburg in the matriculations of the university. In the following year he moved to the University of Harderwijk , where he matriculated under the rector, former teacher in Duisburg and Cartersian Theodor van Graeff (-1701) on September 7, 1694 to study theology. In Harderwijk in 1696 under Johannes Meyer (1651–1725) he had the treatise Disquisitionis theologicæ de vaticiniis Bileami ex Num. XXII. XXIII. XXIV. Pars secunda (Harderwijk 1696) defended. On September 20, 1697 he enrolled at the University of Franeker , where he attended, among other things, the lectures of Hermann Alexander Roëll . He conducted further studies from December 21, 1702 at the University of Leiden , where he may have found a formative teacher in Burchard de Volder .

Returned to Duisburg, he acquired the academic degree of doctor of philosophy in 1704, then worked as a lecturer in philosophy and mathematics at the university and in 1707 took over the professorship of philosophy and mathematics there as the successor to Adrian Ludolph Becker (1633–1704). In 1710 he submitted his resignation from his professorship because the Senate of the university had shown profound lack of understanding of his Cartesian philosophy. However, he seems to have kept his Duisburg chair for some time. In Duisburg he published his work de natura Dei in 1711 and was promoted to rector of the university in 1711/12.

In 1717 he came into consideration for the chair of mathematical sciences at the University of Groningen . However, here he got into a literary dispute over his Latin dissertation on the nature of God (de natura Dei) , in which he had questioned the position of the Reformed Orthodoxy. Thereupon he made himself suspicious of Anthonius Driessen (1684–1748) of being a follower of Baruch de Spinoza . Although Taco Hajo van den Honert (theologian) stood up for Wittich, the dispute over several literary publications escalated, which over time also involved other Reformed Orthodox theologians. His publications Responsionem ad Scrupulos (1718), Abstersio calummiarum, quibus ejus disputatio de natura Die non ita pridem inquinata fuit a Cl belong to this dispute . Antonio Drissen (1718) and Wysgeerige Negotiating van de nature Gods, withered Jacob Wittich, thans Phil. Doct. & Prof. Ord. Te Leiden, in the jare MDCCXI, te Duisberg uytgegeven en verdedigt heest. Synde deselve nu door the Aucteur in het nederduyts vertaalt mer note, dead oplossing van des Heeren Driessen accusations, verrykt, en voorsien met een Voorreden en Bywegsel, were dead en proevje some pieces were brought by, dead ontdekking van des Heeren Drissen in hetlyke revel in van Goddelyke Saken (1719). Because of this dispute Wittich did not get the chair in Groningen.

Rather, on June 24, 1718, he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Leiden. He took on this task on September 19, 1718 with his introductory speech de celsitudine et evidentia in quibus illa philosophiae partibus inveniatur , in which he also attacked Drissen's opinion. After the disputes had ended after a few years and he had distinguished himself with Disputatio metaphysica de cogitatione, ipsa mente (1719), he was given the chair of ethics on September 26, 1725. When Willem Jacob 's Gravesande switched to the chair of philosophy in 1734, he took over the chair of mathematics and astronomy on July 12, 1734, with which the management of the Leiden observatory was connected. On this occasion he gave the speech de infinito prout in eo Geometrae versantur . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in 1727/28 and 1735/36 . At the resignation of both rector councils he had given the speeches de affectibus animi (1728) and de indignitate et inutilitate tormentorum in quaestionibus reorum (1736, 1738).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not Aken like Johann Christian Poggendorff in his biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of exact sciences. Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1863, Bd. 2, Sp. 1345, ( online ) writes. Aken is the Dutch name for Aachen, which among other things is confirmed by his matriculations in Duisburg, where Aquisgranensis = Aachen as the place of origin is given. Also not 1671 as AA writes, but 1677, see: CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugdono-Batavae MDLXXV-MCMXL. Brill Archive, Leiden, 1941, p. 178, Jan Christiaan Kobus, Willem GH de Rivecourt: Beknopt biographical handwoordenboek van Nederland. AEC van Someren, Zutphen, 1861 Vol. 3, p. 490 ( online ); Matthijs Siegenbeek: Geschiedenis der Leidsche hoogeschool: van hare oprigting in den jare 1575, tot het Jaar 1825. S. and J. Luchtmans, Leiden, 1832, 2nd vol., P. 180 ( online )
  2. ↑ August Christian Borheck: History of the countries Cleve, Mark, Jülich, Berg, and Ravensberg, according to Teschenmacher and others along with a history of the city of Duisburg on the Rhine. 2nd vol., P. 108 ( online )
  3. ↑ Christoph Wittich (born November 9, 1588 in Liegnitz; † March 27, 1649 in Brieg) studied in Frankfurt / Oder, was ordained as pastor in Graenowiz-Liegnitz on April 14, 1612, December 1616 court deacon Liegnitz (with S. Johannes) , 1628 court preacher Brieg, converted to the Reformed faith, 1639 administrator (vice superintendent) Brieg, 1646 retired ( Siegismund Justus Ehrhardt : Presbyterology of Evangelical Silesia. Verlag Johann Gottfried Pappasche, Liegnitz, 1782, vol. 2, p. 64 ( online ))
  4. ^ DG van Epen: Album Studiosorum Academiae Gelro-Zutphanicae MDCXLVIII-MDCCCXVIII. Jacobum Hoekstra, The Hague, 1904
  5. ^ Georg Becker: The German students and professors at the Academy of Franeker. Verlag der Meilenstein, Soest, 1943 ( Online or PDF ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) or SJ Fockema Andreae, Th. J. Meijer: Album Studiosorum Academiae Franekerensis (1585-1811, 1816-1844). Verlag T. Wever, Franeker, 1968, p. 272, No. 9687 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / resources21.kb.nl
  6. ^ G. du Rieu: Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae 1575-1875. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1875, p. 773>
  7. ↑ Francesco Trevisani: Descartes in Germany: The Reception of Cartesianism in the Universities of Northwest Germany. Lit Verlag, Vienna-Zurich-Münster, 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-90054-8 , p. 106 ( online sample )
  8. ^ Johann Hildebrand Withof: The chronicle of the city of Duisburg: from the beginnings to the year 1742. Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-2530-9 , p. 482, online reading sample
  9. ↑ ALBUM STUDIOSORUM DUISBURG. ( New edition )
  10. ↑ Francesco Trevisani: Descartes in Germany: The Reception of Cartesianism in the Universities of Northwest Germany. Lit Verlag, Vienna-Zurich-Münster, 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-90054-8 , p. 182
  11. ↑ Rector Council List Duisburg chronologically
  12. ↑ CA Siegenbeek van Heukelom-Lamme: Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugdono-Batavae MDLXXV-MCMXL. Brill Archive, Leiden, 1941, p. 178
personal data
SURNAME Wittich, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittichius, Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1739
Place of death Suffer