Johann von Geldern

Johann von Geldern (also: Gelderen ; born September 30, 1567 in Antwerp , † September 9, 1620 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a Flemish logician.

Life

Geldern claims to have come from Flanders and is said to have been brought up in Prussia. There is no concrete information about the family relationships from which he came. It is possible that one can relate him to the ducal Prussian music master Bernhard von Geldern, whose daughter Elisabeth († 14 August 1606) married the school rector in Kneiphof Mag. Peter Hagen (1569-1620) on December 12, 1597 bring. It is possible that he had registered under a different name in the registers of the University of Königsberg, because no student at the university there could be identified in the registers under the name of Johann von Geldern .

On February 14, 1593 he entered himself as Johann a Geldern Borussus in the register of the University of Wittenberg , where on April 3, 1593, as the best of 28 graduates, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree. This indicates an extensive and high-quality education, which at that time could only have taken place at a university. After a short stay in Wittenberg he returned to Königsberg, where in 1594 he found a position as an archipagogue at the local pedagogy. In 1595 he was appointed professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Königsberg, and in 1605 he took over the job of librarian at the Königsberg castle library.

In his university office he established himself as a follower of the logic of Aristotle . Above all, he came up against Petrus Ramus , who, building on the teachings of Aristotelian logic, developed the basis for his Ramism . In addition, the works Disp. de definitione naturae ex libro II. Aristotelis ; de physica constitutione logices and de oeconomin doctrinarum animae . Geldern also took part in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semesters 1607, 1615 and 1619 .

family

His first marriage was in 1594 with Katharina (* October 20, 1566; † October 1606), daughter of the master maker in Löbenicht Simon Crüger.

His second marriage was to a granddaughter of the Saxon court preacher Salomon Winter. It seems to be Barbara, the daughter of Martin Winter (logician) , a granddaughter of Solomon Winter.

From the first marriage two sons and three daughters can be deduced.

Two sons are known from the second marriage. We know from the children:

• Son Johannes (1st marriage) enrolled in 1610 University of Königsberg
• Son NN. (1st marriage) † before 1606
• Daughter Elisabeth († 1631), married to the Löbenicht councilor Alexander Decimator
• Daughter NN. (1st marriage) still lived in 1606
• Daughter NN. (1st marriage) still lived in 1606
• Son Solomon (January 17, 1611 - June 9, 1614)
• Son Martin († August 20, 1620)

literature

• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 381
• Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1886, pp. 123, 275, 316
• J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1882, p. 1882, p. 197 f.
• Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Duncker and Humblot publishing house, Leipzig, 1903, pp. 19, 78