Johann Nepomuk Endres

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Johann Nepomuk Endres (born January 15, 1730 in Großbardorf ; † May 4, 1791 in Würzburg ) was a German theologian and lawyer. As a thinker of natural rights in the Catholic Enlightenment , he is significant in intellectual history . There he is assigned to the Würzburg School ( Johann Kaspar Barthel , Georg Christoph Neller , Johann Adam von Ickstatt ).

Endres was appointed full professor for canon law at the University of Würzburg in 1771 . From an intellectual historical point of view, his dissertation from 1761 on the necessity of the science of natural law is of scientific importance for canon law as well as for the philosophy of state and law. In the age of the law of reason and the Enlightenment , Endres developed not only a Christian doctrine of natural law, but also a theory on the relationship between state and church by establishing the independence and legal power of the Catholic Church from an analogy between state and church government .

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SURNAME Endres, Johann Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian, lawyer and philosopher of the Catholic Enlightenment
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossbardorf
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1791
Place of death Wurzburg