Samuel Pufendorf

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human jurist legal scholar natural law theorist political philosopher writer

Samuel Pufendorf was a 17th-century German jurist, political philosopher, and early theorist of natural law whose writings significantly shaped modern ideas about international law and the state.

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Label	Occurrences
Samuel Pufendorf canonical	10
Samuel von Pufendorf	7
Pufendorf	1
Samuelis de Pufendorf	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ jurist ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ natural law theorist ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ writer ⓘ
citizenship	Electorate of Saxony ⓘ Sweden ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Electorate of Saxony ⓘ
countryOfDeath	Brandenburg-Prussia ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1632-01-08 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1694-10-13 ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Jena ⓘ University of Leipzig ⓘ
employer	Swedish Crown ⓘ Heidelberg University ⓘ surface form: University of Heidelberg Lund University ⓘ surface form: University of Lund
era	17th-century philosophy ⓘ
familyName	Samuel Pufendorf self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Pufendorf
fieldOfWork	international law ⓘ law ⓘ natural law ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ
givenName	Samuel ⓘ
influenced	Christian Thomasius ⓘ Emer de Vattel ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ Montesquieu ⓘ
influencedBy	Hugo Grotius ⓘ Thomas Hobbes ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	German ⓘ Latin ⓘ
mainInterest	relations between church and state ⓘ the law of nature and nations ⓘ the theory of the state ⓘ
movement	natural law tradition ⓘ
nativeLanguage	German ⓘ
notableIdea	conception of the state as a moral person ⓘ secularized natural law theory ⓘ
notableWork	De jure naturae et gentium ⓘ De officio hominis et civis ⓘ De statu imperii Germanici ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Dorfchemnitz ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Berlin ⓘ
positionHeld	historiographer of Brandenburg ⓘ historiographer royal of Sweden ⓘ professor of law at the University of Lund ⓘ professor of natural and international law at the University of Heidelberg ⓘ
religion	Lutheranism ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ