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
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jurist → legal scholar → natural law theorist → political philosopher → writer → |
| citizenship |
Electorate of Saxony
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Sweden → |
| countryOfBirth |
Electorate of Saxony
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| countryOfDeath |
Brandenburg-Prussia
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| dateOfBirth |
1632-01-08
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| dateOfDeath |
1694-10-13
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| educatedAt |
University of Jena
NERFINISHED
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University of Leipzig NERFINISHED → |
| employer |
Swedish Crown
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University of Heidelberg NERFINISHED → University of Lund → |
| era |
17th-century philosophy
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| familyName |
Pufendorf
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| fieldOfWork |
international law
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law → natural law → political philosophy → |
| givenName |
Samuel
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| influenced |
Christian Thomasius
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Emer de Vattel → Immanuel Kant → Jean-Jacques Rousseau → Montesquieu → |
| influencedBy |
Hugo Grotius
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Thomas Hobbes → |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
German
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Latin → |
| mainInterest |
relations between church and state
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the law of nature and nations → the theory of the state → |
| movement |
natural law tradition
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| nativeLanguage |
German
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| notableIdea |
conception of the state as a moral person
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secularized natural law theory → |
| notableWork |
De jure naturae et gentium
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De officio hominis et civis → De statu imperii Germanici → |
| placeOfBirth |
Dorfchemnitz
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| placeOfDeath |
Berlin
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| positionHeld |
historiographer of Brandenburg
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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
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| sexOrGender |
male
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Referenced by (7)
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Francisco Suárez
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Hugo Grotius → Hugo de Groot → |
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Christian Thomasius
("Samuel von Pufendorf")
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Emer de Vattel ("Samuel von Pufendorf") → |
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Samuel Pufendorf
("Pufendorf")
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familyName |
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University of Frankfurt (Oder)
("Samuel von Pufendorf")
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notableProfessor |