Vincent Placcius

Vincent Placcius (Latin Vincentius Placcius ; * February 7, 1642 in Hamburg ; † April 6, 1699 ibid) was a German lawyer, librarian, educator, philosopher and writer.

Life

Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

Placcius was born as the son of the Hamburg doctor and former professor of medicine at the University of Jena Johann Placcius (1605–1656) in Hamburg. His mother Margaretha Garmers was a daughter of the council syndicate Johann Garmers (1586-1638). After his education with private teachers and from 1656 at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg, Placcius studied together with his brother Johann from 1659 at the University of Helmstedt , but then attended the academy of Professor Johann vom Felde († 1668) with other fellow students in 1660 Country seat in Neukirchen near Schkopau and finally went to the University of Leipzig in 1661 . From Leipzig he visited his uncle Vincent Garmers (1623–1687) in Vienna , but fell ill there and made a trip to Italy , where he was appointed librarian in Padua . From here he moved to the University of Orléans and received his doctorate there in 1665 as a licentiate in law. After completing his studies, he traveled to France and Holland before returning to his native city in 1667.

Placcius initially settled in Hamburg as a lawyer and gave private lessons. On January 11, 1675 he was appointed professor of eloquence and practical philosophy at the Academic Gymnasium. In the cycle of six years he was in the years 1677, 1683, 1689 and 1695 Rector of the Academic Gymnasium. He died unmarried in Hamburg in 1699 at the age of 57. At the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, there is a tomb for Vincent Placcius, consisting of a vertical panel and a slab behind it after being relocated from the St. Georg cemetery in 1905.

After his death, Barthold Walther, Helwig Sillem , Christoph Wilhad Hilcken and Eberhard Anckelmann were chosen to be Placcius' executors . In 1704 Hilcken donated Placcius' book collection of 4,000 volumes to the Hamburg city library . In his will, Placcius also donated an annual scholarship for at least three students who must have previously attended the Academic Gymnasium.

Works

• Atlantis retecta, sive de navigatione prima Christophori Columbi in Americam poëma Vincentii Placcii . Jacob Rebenlein, Hamburg 1659, OCLC 311488089 ( digitized ).
• Theses inaugurales de interpretatione legum . Orléans 1665, OCLC 311746909 .
• Philosophiae moralis plenioris frucius praecipuus qui est agnoscere illius ope, philosophiam non sufficere beatitati solidae ulli constituendae, nedum acquirendae, revelationem vero divinam, ei necessariam, certisque signis (in sola religione Christiana depraehend ge qualibet non-public supersition ge qualuendis non-public) exposure. Adjecta est Oratio ejusdem de juvene philosophiae practicae auditore . Friedrich Lüderwald, Helmstedt 1677.
• Thorough proof of the immortality of human souls, from the mere light of nature . Frankfurt am Main 1685, OCLC 245700394 .
• “Drei Tractätlein Vincentii Placcii, The First The Sitten-Arzney-Art. The second Christian morality. The Third Thorough Evidence of Human Souls Immortality from the Light of Nature ” . Johann David Zunner, Frankfurt am Main 1688, OCLC 166129144 ( digitized ).
• Consilli de studio philosophiae practicae optimae instituendo Epitome et Praxeos Rhetoricae, seu Consilli de studio rhetorico, lemmatica repraesentatio, destinatae Accessionum ethicarum, juris naturalis et rhetoricarum, appendices geminae, culpa Typographi omissitae, nune seorsorographic Accession . Konrad Neumann, Hamburg 1695.

expenditure

• Markus Scheer (ed.): The Argonauts and Aeneas in America. Annotated new edition of the Columbus epic Atlantis retecta by Vincentius Placcius [...]. Schöningh, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-75636-7 (critical edition)
• Hermann Wiegand (Ed.): Vincent Placcius: Atlantis retecta. The rediscovered Atlantis. The first neo-Latin-German Columbus epic (= Bibliotheca Neolatina , volume 6). Manutius, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN = 3-92-567828-X, OCLC = 27686550

literature

• Arnold Christian Beuthner : Placcius, Vincentius, IVL Philosophiae Practicae and Eloquentiae Professor . In: “Hamburgisches Staats- und Schehrten-Lexicon, which lists the names, lives and merits of those men of spiritual and worldly class who, from the wholesome Reformation up to the present day, in this world-famous city and the same areas, are honored -Office, or a high dignity clothed made famous by writings, born there and received in the foreign promotion, but have already blessed the temporal " . Christian Wilhelm Brandt, Hamburg 1739, OCLC 46285036 , p. 287–289 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library ).
• Nicolaus Wilckens : Vincent Placcius, JUL, professor of eloquence and practical philosophy . In: Christian Ziegra (ed.): Nicolaus Wilckens Hamburgischer Ehrentempel, in which a number of credible and as much as possible complete descriptions of lives of learned and deserving men, some of whom were born outside Hamburg, and served there in the spiritual and secular class of the city have, or have stayed in a private life, or have been promoted abroad . Christian Simon Schröder, Hamburg 1770, p. 506-517 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Friedrich Lorenz Hoffmann : Vincent Placcius. His achievements in the field of bibliography, anonymous and pseudonymous writings. In addition to a brief outline of his life and evidence of his learned correspondence . Theodor Oswald Weigel, Leipzig 1857, OCLC 65863018 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ).
• Hans Schröder : Placcius (Vincent) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 6 , no. 3016 . W. Mauke's Sons, Hamburg 1873 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
• Richard Hoche :  Placcius, Vincent . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 220.

Web links

• Publications by and about Vincent Placcius in VD 17 .
• Digital copies by and about Vincent Placcius in the Munich digitization center

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schröder and Hoche incorrectly state February 4th as their date of birth. Wilckens only gives the month of February. Beuthner, Hoffmann and Placcius themselves give February 7th as their date of birth. Compare: literature .
2. ^ Hans Schröder: Placcius (Johann I.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 6 , no. 3014 . W. Mauke's Sons, Hamburg 1873 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
3. ^ Hans Schröder: Garmers (Johann 2.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 2 , no. 1161 . Perthes-Besser u. Mauke, Hamburg 1854 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library). Facsimile ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Hans Schröder: Placcius (Johann II.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 6 , no. 3015 . W. Mauke's Sons, Hamburg 1873 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
5. ^ Hans-Peter Schneider : Johann from the field . In: Justitia Universalis . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1967, p. 125–134 ( digitized from Google Books).
6. ^ Hans Schröder: Garmers (Vincent 1.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 2 , no. 1163 . Perthes-Besser u. Mauke, Hamburg 1854 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library). Facsimile ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Johann Albert Fabricius : Rectores annui . In: Memoriarum Hamburgensium . Volume Secundum. Christian Liebezeit, Hamburg 1710, p. 1068-1069 ( digitized from Google Books).
8. ↑ Hans Schröder: Walther (Barthold) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 7 , no. 4230 . Perthes, Hamburg 1879 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
9. ↑ Nicolaus Staphorst : Des blessed Mr. Vincentii Placcii, JUL & Prof. Publ. Scholarship holder order established in will . In: Historia Ecclesiae Hamburgensis diplomatica, that is Hamburg church history, made up of credible and mostly unprinted documents . First part, fourth volume. Theodor Christoph Felginer's widow, Hamburg 1731, p. 788–789 ( digitized from Google Books).
10. ^ Johann Martin Lappenberg , Hermann Gries : Vincent Placcius JUL In: The mild private foundations in Hamburg . Second revised and changed edition. W. Mauke's Sons, Hamburg 1870, p. 117–118 ( digitized from Google Books).