Regnerus van Mansveld

Regnerus of Mansveld

Regnerus van Mansveld (also: von Mansveldius, Mansvelt, pseudonym: Petrus ab Andlo ; * October 21, 1639 in Utrecht ; † May 29, 1671 ibid) was a Dutch philosopher.

Life

The son of councilor Antonius Mansveldius and Elisabeth Heydendal came from a patrician family that had always sat on the council in Utrecht and had a great deal of influence. He had initially attended the Latin school in Utrecht. He had completed his studies from February 1655 at the University of Utrecht and 1657 at the University of Leiden . After he had returned to Utrecht in 1658, he obtained the degree of Magister in Philosophical Sciences on September 7 of the same year. After that he was to become a pastor at the embassy in Spain.

Before he left, however, he was appointed professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Utrecht on November 7, 1660 to succeed Daniel Voet (1629-1660). He took up this post on November 27 of the same year with the speech De philosophia et philosophiae studioso . In his capacity as a Utrecht university professor, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the academy and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1665/66 . On December 5, 1667 he also took over the professorship of ethics in Utrecht.

Mansveld was a representative of the Cartesian philosophy of René Descartes , who wrote a Specimen confutationis dissertationis de abusu philosophiae Cartesianae against Samuel Maresius (1599–1673) under the pseudonym Petrus from Andlo . Thereupon this replied with the writing Vindicia en Vindiciarum vindiciae , so that Mansveld again under the pseudonym Animadversiones in vindicias and a specimen Bombomachiae Maresii followed.

Constant overload due to his university teaching activities resulted in his death. Johann Georg Graevius gave the funeral speech. Posthumously, Baruch de Spinoza published his Discursus Theologico-politicum (Amsterdam 1674).

Works

• De ratiocinatione legitima. 1668, Leipzig 1699, Herborn 1711
• Rectae Ratiocinationis Elementa Leipzig 1699 digitized
• Lucubrationes in detestabilem Benedicti Spinosae librum, qui inscribitur Discursus Theologico-Politicum. Amsterdam 1674

literature

• Mansveld, sprinkler of. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 19, Leipzig 1739, column 1089.
• 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, Vol. 3, Sp. 119
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, vol. 12, part 1, p. 155, ( online , Dutch)
• Knipscheer: MANSVELD (Regnerus van). In: Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen , Petrus Johannes Blok : Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . (NNBW), Verlag AW Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, Leiden, 1933, Vol. 9, Sp. 646-647 ( online , Dutch)
• Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Gebrüder Muller, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1858, Vol. 2, p. 432, ( Online , Dutch)

Web link

• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University of Utrecht: Album studiosorum Academiae Rheno-traiectinae MDCXXXVI-MDCCCLXXXVI. JL Beijers / J. van Boekhoven, Utrecht, 1886, Sp. 44 and 53
2. ↑ Guilielmus du Rieu: Album studiosorum academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV-MDCCCLXXV. Martin Nijhoff, The Hague, 1875, p. 459
3. ↑ Frans Ketner: Album Promotorum qui inde from anno MDCXXXVI usque ad annum MDCCCXV in Rheno-Trajectina gradum doctoratus adepti sunt, Societas cui nomen “Provinciaal Obtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen” componendum edatalendumque Trajecta donimo-academiae Rhenimoite Rhenimoite . Verlag Broekhoff, Utrecht, 1936, p. 14 ( Online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )