Samuel Pufendorf

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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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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 NERFINISHED
University of Leipzig NERFINISHED
employer Swedish Crown
University of Heidelberg NERFINISHED
University of Lund
era 17th-century philosophy
familyName 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

Referenced by (7)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Francisco Suárez
Hugo Grotius
Hugo de Groot
influenced
Christian Thomasius ("Samuel von Pufendorf")
Emer de Vattel ("Samuel von Pufendorf")
influencedBy
Samuel Pufendorf ("Pufendorf")
familyName
University of Frankfurt (Oder) ("Samuel von Pufendorf")
notableProfessor

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