Michael Watson (polymath)

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Michael Watson (born August 17, 1623 in Stolp in Western Pomerania , † December 7, 1665 in Kiel ) was a German historian , philosopher , philologist , political scientist and university professor .

Life

Watson was the son of Jakob Watson and Sophie Watson, b. Fire. His father, who ran a silk trade in Stolp , came from a respected Scottish family. Michael Watson attended the Latin school in Stolp until 1641 and then studied in Danzig and from autumn 1643 at the University of Königsberg , where he studied philosophy with Hartwig Wichelmann , Albert Linemann and Michael Falck and theology with Cölestin Myslenta and Christian Dreier . On April 25, 1647 he was awarded his master's degree in Königsberg. In Königsberg he began as a private lecturer to give lectures on physics . After paying a visit to Rostock in 1648 , he stayed in succession as a private scholar in Leiden , Utrecht , Hamburg , Rostock, Denmark , Frankfurt an der Oder , Greifswald and Stralsund . In Leiden, where he spent a year, he gave lectures on the ethics of Aristotle . In Rostock he had been an adjunct of the philosophical faculty since 1654 . In 1556 he went to Bremen and from there to Helmstedt . In 1658 he was finally appointed professor of physics, politics and history at the University of Rinteln . After he was awarded the theological doctorate in 1664, he went to the newly established University of Kiel in 1665 as a professor of church history and general history . He died in Kiel that same year, just two months after the university opened. Adam Tribbechov succeeded him in his place . Watson has published a considerable number of pamphlets and philosophical treatises. In the professional world he was regarded as a collector of everything worth knowing, less as a systematic researcher and independent thinker. In older encyclopedias he is called a polyhistor .

Fonts

  • Unio Sapientiae, p. synopsis totius philosophiae , Bremen 1658.
  • Clinodium Aristotelicum seu Dissertationes in universam philosophiam , Helmstedt 1661.
  • Theatrum variarum rerum, s. excerpta et annotata in libros de rebus memorabilibus Puncinelli et Salmuthi , Bremen 1663.
  • Disputationes in 5 ll. Metaphysicorum Aristotelis .
  • Dissertations in 8 ll. Politicorum Aristotelis .
  • De vocabulorum ad sapientium primam spectantium primis definitonibus et variis significationibus .

literature

  • Walter Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Volume 10, Saur, Munich 1999, p. 345.
  • Max Heinze :  Watson, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 238.
  • General German Biography , Volume 41. Leipzig 1896, p. 238.
  • Article Watson (Michael). In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon , Volume 4: S – Z, Leipzig 1751, Sp. 1828.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Foundations of a Hessian Scholar and Writer History , Volume 16. 1812.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the article Tribbechov (Adam). In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon , Volume 4: S – Z, Leipzig 1751, Sp. 1310–1312.
personal data
SURNAME Watson, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, philosopher, philologist, political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolp , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1665
Place of death Kiel