Pufendorf, Samuel, baron von
- Pufendorf, Samuel, baron von
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born Jan. 8, 1632, Dorfchemnitz, near Thalheim, Saxony
died Oct. 13, 1694, Berlin
German jurist and historian.
The son of a pastor,
he left the study of theology for jurisprudence,
philosophy,
and history.
He taught at the Universities of Heidelberg (
1661–
68)
and Lund (
1670–
77).
His Elements of Universal Jurisprudence (
1660)
and Of the Law and Nature of Nations (
1672),
which were influenced by Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes,
departed from the traditional approach of the medieval theologians to natural law in arguing that there is no such creature as a natural slave
that all men have a right to equality and freedom.
His views were attacked by conservative Protestant theologians in Sweden and Germany,
and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dismissed him as "
a man not a lawyer and scarcely a philosopher at all."
Nevertheless,
he was protected by the Swedish government,
and he became the official historiographer to Charles XI of Sweden (
1677–
88)
and to the elector of Brandenburg (
1688–
94).
* * *
Universalium.
2010.
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