Martin Hassen

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Martin Hassen (also: Hassenius; * July 27, 1677 in Branderoda ; † February 9, 1750 in Wittenberg ) was a German ethnologist and diplomat.

Life

Hassen attended high schools in Naumburg , Weißenfels and Altenburg . In 1697 he moved to the University of Jena and in 1700 the University of Leipzig . After his studies he was educator in Berlin , 1707 secretary of the Russian ambassador in Berlin and 1710 secretary of the cabinet of the court in Dresden. As an excellent expert on Russian and Prussian state practice, he sought an extraordinary professorship in philosophy at the University of Wittenberg since 1710 . Since the philosophical faculty saw no need, the Elector of Saxony decided in 1711 to give him an extraordinary professorship in ethics and after Heinrich Klausing switched to the professorship in logic, he became a full professor of ethics in 1712.

As a full professor, Hassen had retained a keen interest in Russian state history and diplomacy. When Tsar Peter I visited Wittenberg on a trip, he granted him an audience. Hassen used the politics of the great tsar as a glorious example for his extensive portrayal of “True State Wisdom” . He saw himself as a public teacher of "moral and political science". This was in the spirit of the university, which expected its practical philosopher to prepare for the higher civil offices, i.e. to provide general philosophical training as it seemed necessary for the later professional life of the higher classes.

For many years he read the entire moral science on the basis of his own textbooks, which he divided into ethics, natural law, international law and statecraft. He relied on Hugo Grotius and Samuel von Pufendorf as authorities. Hassen's long professorate, which lasted until 1750, has its own place in the history of the Wittenberg Chair of Ethics because of the special political, diplomatic and administrative knowledge and experience of its owner. Thanks to the princely will, a man of practice came on the academic ladder who was considered to be a connoisseur of those two states whose rise was completed in his time by the emerging European pentarchy . After Hassen had held the rectorate of the Wittenberg Academy in the summer semester of 1718 and 1742 , he was appointed councilor by the Saxon court in 1743.

Selection of works

  • Draft of a political special college, which the most distinguished, learned court and civil servants, both domestic and foreign, act according to the same qualities and duties. Wittenberg 1714
  • Scientia de prudentia morali universa. 1721
  • Epistola Panegyrica, qua Illustrissimo Excellentissimoque Domino, Domino Iacobo Henrico SRI Comiti de Flemming, Serenissimi Ac Potentissimi Poloniarum Regis ... Wittenberg, 1721
  • True state wisdom in certain state principles. Leipzig 1739

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hate, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH Branderoda
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1750
Place of death Wittenberg