Jakob Carpov

Jakob Carpov (born September 29,  1699 in Goslar , † June 9, 1768 in Weimar ; also Jacobus Carpovius ) was a German philosopher, theologian, mathematician, rector and universal scholar.

Life

Jakob Carpov was the son of a vice-principal. In 1721 he began studying philosophy in Halle an der Saale with Christian Wolff . A year later he enrolled at the University of Jena , where he received his master's degree and, from 1725, gave lectures on Wolff's philosophy. Together with Heinrich Köhler and Peter Reusch , Carpov defended Wolff's apprenticeship in the years that followed, even away from the chair . Several pamphlets attacked the theologian Joachim Lange , the spokesman for the Halle Pietists. As a result of a polemical debate about the Wertheimer Bible and Wolffianism , Carpov came under criticism because of the liaison with his housekeeper and lover Rosenhonin. Supported by Lange's attacks, by polemics by the theologian and scholastic Johann Franz Buddeus and by objections by the philosopher Johann Jacob Syrbius , the Jenens University Council ruled in 1736 that Carpov had “let himself be entrusted with a doubled whore”. Increasingly philosophically isolated, Carpov therefore accepted an offer from the Weimar court in 1737 . From then on he taught until the end of his life as rector at the grammar school in Weimar. In 1742 Carpov took over a professor of mathematics and in 1745 became director of the Weimar grammar school.

Carpov was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . He communicated with scholars such as Johann Peter Süßmilch , who described him as an "astute philosopher" in his attempt to prove that the first language did not originate from humans but from the Creator , and advised Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . As a Jungwolffian, Carpov represented the demonstrative method, the scope of which he gradually expanded to include modern theology.

Carpov's work Theologia revelata dogmatica, methodo scientifica adornata , published in print in 1737, was placed on the index by decree of the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of December 3, 1754 .

Selection of works

• Jacob Carpov: Detailed explanation of the wolfish reasonable thoughts of the people doing and letting go. In it mainly those passages which Herr D. and Prof. Joachimus Lange sought to dispute in his philosophical questions about so-called mechanical morality, correctly explained and defended, together with a twofold defense of the necessary answer to the 130th Langian questions to light posed . Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig 1735. Bavarian State Library
• Jacob Carpov: Theologia Revelata Dogmatica Methodo Scientifica Adornata / Avctore Iacobo Carpovio Philosophiæ Magistro . Johann Adam Melchior, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1737, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 1-835600 (Latin).

literature

• Max Wundt : The philosophy at the University of Jena presented in its historical course . Jena 1932.
• Johann Peter Süßmilch : Attempt to prove that the first language did not get its origin from humans, but only from the creator , Cologne 1998 (reprint).
• Burckhardt:  Carpov, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 8 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ursula Goldenbaum: Leibniz 'Théodicée as the theoretical basis of the Wertheimer Bible. A contribution to the history of the University of Jena . In: Alexandra Lewandowski (ed.): Leibniz pictures in the 18th and 19th centuries . Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08401-0 , pp. 100-103 .
2. ^ Notker Hammerstein : Christian Wolff and the universities. On the history of the impact of Wolffianism in the 18th century . In: Werner Schneiders (Ed.): Christian Wolff 1679-1754. Interpretations of his philosophy and its effect . 2nd Edition. Felix Meiner, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 978-3-7873-0676-3 , p. 266-277 .
3. ↑ Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966 . Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , pp. 193 (French, Google digitized version ).