Sigismund Pichler
Sigismund Pichler (born October 17, 1603 in Grieskirchen , † March 17, 1668 in Königsberg, Prussia ) was a German philosopher.
Life
Pichler was the son of the Lutheran preacher Wolfgang Pichler, who worked as archdeacon in Watzenkirch, and his wife Babara Winckler, daughter of the councilor in Halstadt Valentin Winckler. After initial school education, he attended grammar school in Linz in 1618 and began studying at the University of Geneva in 1621 . Moved to the University of Strasbourg , he had acquired a master's degree in 1626 and began studying law. But soon he became the tutor of the future governor of Prussia, Duke Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ . With this he came via Jena , Leipzig and Wittenberg to the University of Greifswald , where he administered the Chancellery and took part in two doctorates in the philosophical faculty.
He had also traveled to Holland with his pupil and in 1640 was appointed professor of practical philosophy at the University of Königsberg . Here he worked for twenty-eight years with his lectures on politics and ethics in this office, was dean of the philosophical faculty several times and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semester of 1660 . His body was buried on March 23rd in the professors' vault of the Königsberg Cathedral and an epitaph was placed on it . A large number of disputations in the university business as a respondent are likely to have been prepared from his traditional writings. Some of his own writings are ascribed to him, but these are currently not verifiable. From 1656 to 1668 he was also the librarian of the library of the former Chancellor Martin von Wallenrodt in Königsberg.
Pilcher had married three times.
On November 6, 1643 he had married Katharina (* August 6, 1624, † January 31, 1651), daughter of Daniel Halbach von der Phorten . The marriage is said to have had four children.
In 1652 he married again with Elisabeth Lux, widow of the first electoral chamber minister Heinrich Bulbeck.
On June 1, 1654 he got his third marriage with Ursula Greif (* April 6, 1614 - October 26, 1676), widow of Paul von Dühren.
The following children are known from his marriages: Elisabeth (* November 27, 1652; † October 9, 1672), Barbara († October 31, 1650) and Maria († December 26, 1650).
Works
- Disp. de Republica 1644
- Disp. de Legibus 1644
- Disp. de incrementis Rerumpublicarum 1646
- Disp. de statibus Rerumpublicarum 1647
- Disp. de ratione status Aristocratici vera 1652
- Disp. de praesagiis Rerumpublicarum 1657
- Disp. de non conteranendo in Republica exiguo 1662
- Disp. de Interregno 1663
- Disp. de Comitiis 1666
- Disp. de potentia Reipubhcae 1667
- Disp. de praemiie ac poenis, etc
literature
- Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, Part 2, p. 390
- Henning Witte: Memoriae philosophorum, oratorum, poetarum, historicorum et philologorum nostri seculi clarissimorum renovatae decas prima (- nona). ( Online )
- Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1886, pp. 278, 312
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pichler, Sigismund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1603 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grieskirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1668 |
| Place of death | Königsberg (Prussia) |