Philipp Horst

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Philipp Horst also: Horstius (born July 10, 1584 in Braunschweig , † February 19, 1664 in Jena ) was a German rhetorician and moral philosopher.

Life

Horst was the son of the businessman and councilor Rotger (Rödiger) Horst and his wife Anna Krumreiffer. He attended the Martin School in Braunschweig, in 1599 he switched to the school in Hameln , then he attended the school in Göttingen and in 1602 the grammar school in Stettin . In October 1605 he began studying philosophy and theology at the University of Wittenberg . His teachers at the time were Leonhard Hutter , Johannes Förster , Tobias Tandler , Friedrich Taubmann and Heinrich Velstein the Younger . On September 20, 1608, he acquired the degree of master's degree in philosophy and he was awarded the poet's crown that same year .

In 1610 he found a position as private tutor in Stettin , where he taught the children of the noble Otto von Rammin and with them moved to the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in the same year . After further stays at German universities, he returned to Jena University in 1619 . Here he was adjunct of the philosophical faculty in 1620, professor of rhetoric in 1621 and professor of practical moral philosophy in 1631. He also took part in the organizational tasks of Salana. He was dean of the philosophical faculty several times and in the summer semesters 1627, 1641 and 1647 rector of the alma mater .

family

Horst met Dorothea Barbara Eckhard on November 11, 1623 in Jena (* December 12, 1603 in Singen; † July 13, 1638 in Jena), the daughter of the general superintendent of Altenburg Heinrich Eckhard (* October 19, 1582 in Wetter / Hessen -Nassau; † February 22, 1622 in Altenburg) and his first wife Ottilia Vogel († 1607), married. The marriage resulted in seven sons and four daughters. From the children we know:

  • Anna Sophia Horst († 1628)
  • Clara Elisabeth Horst (* and † 1633)
  • Anna Sophia Horst (1626-1628)
  • Philipp Amandus Horst, registered SS1641, 1658–1662 Resp., 1661 Mag. Phil, 1669 Resp. Frankfurt / Oder
  • Johann Friedrich Horst (1624–1628) matriculated SS 1627
  • Salius Justinus Horst matriculated SS 1645
  • Zacharias Werner Horst matriculated SS 1645

Works (selection)

  • Nobilium Quaestionum Philosophicarum Decas Prima. Wittenberg 1608 (present Heinrich Velsten, online )
  • Placitorum de bello fasciculus unus. Jena 1620 (Resp.Andreas Jacob Longebeck, online )
  • Trinum Panegyricum. Jena 1623 ( online )
  • Suadae Latialis Alumnis. Jena 1629 ( online )
  • Eloquentiae Latialis addictae Iuventuti. Jena 1631 ( online )
  • Epistolographia seu Methodus conficiendarum Epistolarum. Jena 1633 ( online )
  • Disputatio Politica de Causis mutationum, omnibus rebuspublicis communibus. Jena 1638 (Resp.Georg Engler, online )
  • Schediasma De Strenis. Jena 1660 ( online )

literature

  • Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christoph Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena, 1711, p. 70 (Philosophers, Online )
  • Horstius (Phil.). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 13, Leipzig 1735, column 952 f.
  • 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. 2, Sp. 1712 ( online )
  • John L. Flood: Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 3-11-091274-0 , p. 913.