Kaspar Klock

Kaspar Klock (copper engraving 1634)

Kaspar Klock , contemporary Caspar Klock , (born February 28, 1583 in Soest ; died January 15, 1653 in Braunschweig ) was a German lawyer , statesman and camerawoman . He is considered to be the founder of German taxation .

Live and act

Kaspar Klock was born in Soest on February 28, 1583. He studied in Marburg and Cologne and obtained his doctorate in Basel (Dr. jur.). In the years 1608–1615 and 1638–1649 he was Chancellor in Stolberg , 1616 Obersyndicus in Braunschweig , 1626 Chancellor of the Minden Monastery and 1649 Consultant in Braunschweig. He is considered the founder of an absolutist tax theory and was the author of an extensive Latin legal, political, polemical and historical treatise on the state treasury , which appeared for the first time in Nuremberg in 1651.

"Through his teaching of monopoly companies and his tax theory, he has made a significant contribution to the development of cameralistic economics and has also created valuable prerequisites for modern finance."

Various portraits of him have survived. An engraving by Peter Troschel is printed in the edition of his main work.

His work Tractatus juridico-politico-polemico-historicus was placed on the index of forbidden books by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1677 .

Fonts

Tractatus juridico-politico-polemico-historicus de aerario, sive censu per honesta media absque divexatione populi licite conficiendo, libri duo. 2 volumes. With an introduction ed. v. Bertram Schefold. (= Historia Scientiarum). Hildesheim, Georg Olms / Weidmann 2009 (= reprint of the Nuremberg 1651 edition) digitized
De contributionibus hodie, ut plurimam in Germania usitatis. Basileae: Genathius, 1608 (dissertation)
Tractatus nomico-politicus de contributionibus. 1634

literature

in order of appearance

Eduard Jacobs: Klock, Kaspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 202 f.
Friedrich von Klocke : Kaspar Klock . In: Westphalian pictures of life. Main series, volume 4. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1933, pp. 126–144.
Peter Weber: The importance of the old German cameraists Melchior von Osse , Georg Obrecht , Jakob Bornitz and Kaspar Klock for the origin and development of German economics and finance. Diss., Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Bonn 1942.
Erhard Dittrich: The German and Austrian cameralists (= income from research, Vol. 23) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1974, ISBN 3-534-05511-X .
Erhard Dittrich: Klock (e), Kaspar . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 12 (1979), p. 102 f. ( online ).
Justus Nipperdey: The Invention of Population Policy. State, political theory and population in the early modern period (= publications by the Institute for European History Mainz / Department for Universal History). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-10118-6 .
Lisa Nienhaus: The do-gooders. 66 great thinkers who are changing our lives . Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-44308-2 , pp. 112-114.

Web links

Literature by and about Kaspar Klock in the catalog of the German National Library
thesaurus.cerl.org
lwl.org

References and footnotes

↑ And many other forms of name (see DNB)
↑ cf. faz.net: The father of good public finances ( Bertram Schefold ) - accessed on September 18, 2017
↑ cf. lirias.kuleuven.be (Wim Decock, Leuven)
↑ whoswho.de - accessed on September 18, 2017
↑ Klock, Caspar (portrait collection of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel )
↑ digital copy ; see. HAB (inventory no. II 2849a) - Latin text of the picture caption with German translation
↑ Klock, Kaspar. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 485 (French, digitized ).

personal data
SURNAME	Klock, Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Glock, Caspar; Glock, Casparus; Glock, Kaspar; Bell, Caspar; Bell, Kaspar; Bells, Caspar; Bells, Casparus; Klock, Caspar; Klocke, Caspar; Klocke, Casparus; Klock, Casparus; Klocke, Kaspar; Klockius, Casparus; Klockus, Casparus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, statesman and cameralist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1583
PLACE OF BIRTH	Soest
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1653
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] And many other forms of name (see DNB)

[2] . faz.net: The father of good public finances ( Bertram Schefold ) - accessed on September 18, 2017

[3] . lirias.kuleuven.be (Wim Decock, Leuven)

[4] whoswho.de - accessed on September 18, 2017

[5] Klock, Caspar (portrait collection of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel )

[6] tal copy ; see. HAB (inventory no. II 2849a) - Latin text of the picture caption with German translation

[7] Klock, Kaspar. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 485 (French, digitized ).