Laurentius Weger the Elder

Laurentius Weger the Elder (also: Lorenz Weger ; born August 9, 1599 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † October 1, 1629 there ) was a German philosopher.

Life

Laurentius was the son of the ducal court surgeon in Königsberg Johann Weger and his wife Barbara Dannenhauser. He had studied at the University of Königsberg and in 1621 at the University of Wittenberg . On April 4, 1623, when he returned to Koenigsberg, he acquired the degree of master's degree in philosophy.

In the same year he became vice principal of the school in the old town of Königsberg and in 1624 professor at the orthodox high school Collegio Ruthenico in Wilna . In 1626 he was appointed to the University of Königsberg as professor of logic and metaphysics (dialectics), where he died after a short period of work. In his works he shows himself to be a follower of the philosophy of Aristotle .

On October 16, 1628 he married Elisabeth (* November 6, 1601; † January 6, 1678), the daughter of the Burgrave in Lyck Christoph Schützer on Malinowken, the widow of the mayor Lorenz Becke in Sehesten. After his death, his widow married the hunting counselor Dr. Christoph von Wegner in Damerau. From the marriage comes a son Lorenz Weger (born October 31, 1629, † February 1630)

Works

• Analysis Aphorismi Apostolici, Philippens. capite secundo versibus 5. 6. 7. 8. Profundissimam exinanitionem Salvatoris exhibentis: Opposita Pontificiorum Calvinianorum, Photinianorum, aliorumq [ue] fucatis erroribus. Koenigsberg 1624
• Quaestionibus in omnes organi Aristotelici libros. Koenigsberg 1628
• Completion of the responsibility of P. Richteri, in which it is shown that the doctrine, according to the theologi at Konigsberg of the essence and power of God's Wordts, is a well-founded doctrine and Richter had no legitimate cause to fall away from it. Koenigsberg 1626
• Pathologica generalis. Königsberg 1627 ( online )
• Prima Operatio Logica. Königsberg 1630 ( online )

Works mentioned in the literature but not documented.

• De praedicabilibus
• De primis et secundis notionibus
• Natura logices
• Prima mentis operatione logica
• Affectibus
• Philosophiae practicae divisione

literature

• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, Part 2, p. 382, ​​Z 67
• J. Gallandi: Königsberg city families. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883 p. 616
• Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Verlag Hartung, Königsberg, 1886, pp. 292, 301
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig, 1750, Vol. 4, 1847

Web links

• Publications by and about Laurentius Weger the Elder in VD 17 .