Ludwig Philipp Thümmig

Ludwig Philipp Thümmig (born May 12, 1697 in Helmbrechts , † April 15, 1728 in Kassel ) was a German professor of philosophy and a follower of Christian Wolff .

Life

Ludwig Philipp Thümmig was the son of Georg Peter Thümmig, the pastor of Helmbrechts and later subdeacon of Kulmbach . He received his education at the Lyceum in Kulmbach, the Princely School in Heilbronn and from 1717 at the University of Halle . There he attended lectures at the Philosophical Faculty, especially on mathematics and physics, where he drew the attention of the polymath Christian Wolff, through whose support he rose to full professor and in 1721 became a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences . When Wolff had to leave the University of Halle within 48 hours on the decree of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I and fled to Marburg in 1723 , Thümmig followed his teacher and on his recommendation received a professorship for philosophy at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel in 1724 . His lively literary activity culminated in the two-volume presentation of the teachings of Christian Wolff under the title "Institutiones philosophiae Wolfianae". Thümmig died in Kassel at the age of 30.

Works (selection)

• (anonymous): A lover of world-whiteness impartial sentiment by M. Daniel Strählers examination of the thoughts of Mr. Hoff-Rath Wolffens about God, the world and the soul of man. Leipzig 1723 ( GoogleBooks ).
• Attempt at a thorough explanation of the most remarkable occurrences in nature, whereby one is led to the innermost knowledge of them. (4 items) Hall 1723. Reprint of the first edition: Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 1999 (= Christian Wolff: Gesammelte Werke. Dept. III: Materials and Documents, Vol. 54), ISBN 3-487-10804-6 .
  • New edition, from which various printing errors of the previous one have been removed and increased with a few comments. In addition to a preface by Mr Government Council Wolffens. Marburg 1735 ( digitized ).
• Institutiones philosophiae Wolfianae. Frankfurt 1725–1726 etc. Reprint of the first edition: Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 1982 (= Christian Wolff: Gesammelte Werke. Dept. III: Materials and Documents, Vol. 19) ( first volume on GoogleBooks ).
  • Editio nova. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1740–1746 ( first volume , second volume ).

literature

• Otto Liebmann:  Thümmig, Ludwig Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 177 f.
• Thümmig, Ludwig Philipp. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 43, Leipzig 1745, column 1809-1811.
• Rudolf Eisler : Thümmig, Ludwig Philipp. In: ders .: Philosopher's Lexicon. Lives, works and teachings of the thinkers. Berlin 1912, p. 758 ( full text at zeno.org , digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
• Johann Eduard Erdmann : Attempt at a scientific presentation of the history of modern philosophy , Leipzig 1842, p. 363 ( GoogleBooks )
• Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher : Scholarly Principality of Baireut. Volume 9. Nuremberg 1804, pp. 144-155 ( GoogleBooks ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Philipp Thümmig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Ludwig Philipp Thümmig in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis