Timotheus Christian Wilhelm Overkamp

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Timotheus Christian Wilhelm Overkamp , also Overcamp (born January 25, 1743 in Greifswald ; † March 1, 1828 ibid) was a German polymath , historian , philosopher and doctor.

Life

Timotheus Christian Wilhelm Overkamp was the son of the Greifswald orientalist Georg Wilhelm Overkamp and Hedwig Ulrika Lütkemann, daughter of the general superintendent for Swedish-Pomerania Timotheus Lütkemann . Trained in classical and Near Eastern languages by his father and the adjunct of the philosophical faculty, Jordan, he began studying at the University of Greifswald in 1753 . In the following year he successfully defended a philosophical-exegetical dissertation. His teachers included the theologian and philosopher Peter Ahlwardt , the mathematicians Andreas Mayer and Lampert Hinrich Röhl , the lawyers Johann Carl Dähnert and Johann Brandanus Engelbrecht, and the physicians Christian Stephan Scheffel and Andreas Westphal . In his third year of study he gave several speeches in Latin on festive occasions on behalf of the university , which were later printed. In 1758 the Philosophical Faculty allowed him to hold lectures on philosophy, mathematics and "classical humanities studies".

In 1763 he received his doctorate and habilitation . He then visited the Universities of Halle , Leipzig and Berlin , where he continued his studies in various fields, both in the natural sciences and in the humanities. In 1765 he returned to Greifswald and held lectures on philosophical, mathematical and philological topics as a lecturer in the philosophical faculty . In 1766 he became a doctor of medicine doctorate and announced it at medical lectures. Two years later he completed his habilitation at the medical faculty.

In 1771 he was appointed adjunct of the philosophical faculty. In 1806 he became a full professor of theoretical and practical philosophy. In his philosophical writings he represented the traditions of the Enlightenment philosophy of Christian Wolff . He advocated the liberation of philosophical ethics from dogmatic theological statements.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agneta Schönrock: The project "Greifswald University Teachers' Lexicon of the 19th and 20th Centuries". In: Werner Buchholz (Ed.): The University of Greifswald and the German university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries . Franz Steiner, 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08475-8 , pp. 81-82

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SURNAME Overkamp, ​​Timotheus Christian Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Overcamp, Timotheus Christian Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German polyhistor, historian, philosopher and physician
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1828
Place of death Greifswald