Michael Watson (polymath)
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.
Web links
- Literature about Michael Watson in the state bibliography MV
- Michael Watson in the Rostock matriculation portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the article Tribbechov (Adam). In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon , Volume 4: S – Z, Leipzig 1751, Sp. 1310–1312.
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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 |