Johann Melchior Beseke

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Johann Melchior Gottlieb Beseke (born September 26, 1746 in Burg (near Magdeburg) , † October 8, 1802 in Mitau ) was a German lawyer, philosopher and ornithologist.

Beseke, the son of a pastor and educator, went to Klosterbergen Abbey and from 1766 attended the University of Frankfurt an der Oder , where he studied theology and then philosophy and law. In 1772 he received his master's degree in Halle and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. Then he gave philosophical and legal lectures in Halle. In 1774 he went to the Illustre grammar school ( Academia Petrina ) in Mitau , where he was professor of legal scholarship and was several times Vice-Rector.

He published philosophical treatises, on law, natural history, and even chemistry. In 1797 he published a treatise on the history of the doctrine of spontaneous generation . As an ornithologist, he built up a collection of birds in Courland .

Fonts

  • De jure cogendi (Halle, 1772).
  • Num Litis Contestatio semper malam fidem inducat? (Halle, 1772).
  • De origine modorum contrahendi apud Romanos (Halle, 1772).
  • About the sources of morality and liability as the first reasons of moral philosophy and natural law (Halle, 1774).
  • Draft textbook on natural duties (Mitau, 1777).
  • The book of wisdom and virtue. A reading book for young people from ten to twenty years of age, or for everyone who cares about being wise and good, 3 volumes (Dessau and Leipzig, 1782).
  • About moral feeling (Dessau, 1782).
  • Thesaurus juris cambialis, 2 volumes (Berlīn, 1783).
  • The revelation of God in nature. A font for everyone (Dessau and Leipzig, 1784).
  • An attempt at practical logic, or an instruction to use common sense properly (Leipzig, 1786).
  • Draft of a system of transcendent chemistry (Leipzig, 1787).
  • Sample of a Critical Commentary on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Mitau, 1789).
  • Contribution to the natural history of the birds in Courland (Mitau 1789, Berlin 1821)
  • Attempt at a history of hypotheses about the generation of animals, 1797
  • Attempt a history of natural history (Mitau, 1802).

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personal data
SURNAME Beseke, Johann Melchior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beseke, Johann Melchior Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle (near Magdeburg)
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1802
Place of death Mitau