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Mikkel Munthe Jensen
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2026-04-29
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Musäus, Simon Heinrich (* 1655.07.19 † 1711.08.09)
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Biographical and Intellectual Profile
Biography
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Comment on main natural law works
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Comment on profile’s conception of natural law
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Biographical Data
Education
1671.10.12 - 1676, Jurisprudence, University of Kiel [Erich Mauritius, Samuel Rachel, Nicolaus Martini, Daniel Georg]
1676.02.03 - 1680, Jurisprudence, University of Jena
1680.06.02 - 1680, Jurisprudence, University of Giessen
Degrees
1680.12.16, Licentiate of law, University of Giessen
1684, Doctor of law, University of Kiel
Travels
1680 - 1682, Belgian, France, England
Teaching
1682-1689, Winter and summer semesters, "Law of nature and nations, Grotius' Ius Belli ac Pacis", public lecture courses, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Kiel
1690, Summer semester, "Natural law according to Samuel Pufendorf", public lecture course, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Kiel
1690, Winter semester, "Natural law according to Samuel Pufendorf", public lecture course, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Kiel
1691-1708, Summer and winter semesters, "Natural and universal law according to Hugo Grotius", public lecture courses, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Kiel
1709, Summer semester, "Natural law according to Samuel Pufendorf", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1709-1710, Winter and summer semesters, "Natural and universal law according to Hugo Grotius", public lecture courses, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1710, Winter semester, "Natural law according to Samuel Pufendorf", private lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
1711, Summer semester, "Natural and universal law, Grotius's Ius Belli ac Pacis", public lecture course, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel
Career
1682.08.08 - 1689, Extraordinary professor of law of nature and nations, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy (Volbehr writes 4.8.1682 whereas Röhrich writes 8.8.1682)
1688.10.29 - 1692, Extraordinary professor of law, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
1688.10.29 - 1692, Assessor, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
1689 - 1692, Ordinary professor of law of nature and nations, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy
1692.06.04 - 1711, Ordinary professor of Institutes and law of nature and nations, University of Kiel, Faculty of Law
Bibliographical Data
Printed Sources
Books
Hippocratis in iure tum canonico, tum civili authoritas, occasione c. ne tales, dist. 5. de consecr. & l. 12. de stat. hom. Perfunctorie Adumbrata Et Inaugurali Disputatione (Gießen: Kargeriano, 1680): Digital version
Grotius de jure belli acc pacis: ab Holtermanno & Spinaeo enucleatus denuo nunc impressis (Kiel: Reumann, 1682).
Programma, quo Simon Henricus Musaeus, Iur. Nat. & Gent. Prof. ad Disputationes Iur. Nat. & Gent. singulis quaterdenis, bono cum Deo, publice instituendas, Dominos Commilitones amicissime invitat (Kiel: Reumann, 1683): Digital version
Petri Musaei, S. Th. D. Institutiones Metaphysicae: Antehac Rinthelii editae & ita ordinatae, ut omnium facultat. Studiosis prodesse possint; Accesserunt Indices locupletissimi, nunc denuo prodeunt Cum Annotationibus Eiusdem Posthumis opera Filiorum Simonis Henrici Musaei, I.U.D. et Petri Musaei, I.U. Candidati (Jena: Bielckius, 1686): Digital version
Vindiciae iuris nat. Paradisei, contra dissertationem ultraiecti (Plön: Literis Schmidianis, 1686): Digital version
Specimen aggerum quibus coërcendus est iuris incerti cataclysmus (Plön: Schmidianis, 1688).
[Contributor to] Johann Friedrich Mayer: De Quietistarum persecutionibus (Hamburg, Leipzig: Rebenlinus, 1688).
[Editor of] Johannes Paulinus Olivekrans: Tabulae in Hugonis Grotii De Jure belli ac pacis libros (Kiel: Reumann, 1688)
- Edition 1690 (Kiel: Reumann).
Responsio ad G.V.M. defensionem diss. de orig. iur. nat. vindiciis iuris nat. paradisei oppositam (Plön: Schmidius, 1689): Digital version
Oratio, qua ostenditur, Pontificem ad hospitia, pabula, frumenta, cæteraque, quæ ad annonam pertinent, Caesareo militi, quin etiam ad ipsa tributa Romanorum Imperatori Augusto, exprovinciis ab Episcopo vel Ecclesia Romana possessis, conferenda, obstrictum esse, habita cum V. Doctores Juris solemniter ab eo renunciarentur (Kiel: Reuther, 1708).
De juribus in parmiae et placentiae ducatus a pontifice male praetensis (Kiel: 1709).
Specimen annotationum in Caesareum diploma adversus Pontificis Clementis XI.: Bullam anno 1707 promulgatam, proximo elapso anno emissum (Kiel: Reuther, 1709).
Dissertations
Supremo numine annuente dissertationem de armis prohibitis (Kiel: Reumann, 1684), [Praeses: Simon Heinrich Musaeus, Respondent: Anton Heinrich Wippermann]: Digital version
Dissertatio de linsignibus Imperii Romani (Kiel: Reumann, 1684), [Praeses: Simon Heinrich Musaeus, Respondent: Johannes Heinrich von Poppinghausen]: Digital version
Lemmatum generalium, de iure naturali, seriem I. (Kiel: Reumann, 1687), [Praeses: Simon Heinrich Musaeus, Respondent: Anton Burchard]: Digital version
Specimen Grotii de Iure Belli et Pacis casibus fictis illustrati (Kiel: Reuman, 1689): Digital version
Dissertationem de moralitate actionum humanarum, circa quas ius naturae versatur (Kiel: Reumann, 1690), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Johannes Fridericus Henningius]: Digital version
Dissertationem de iuramentis indeliberatis (Kiel: Reumann, 1690), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Valentin Koepke]: Digital version
Dissertationem iuridicam de teste singulari (Kiel: Reumann, 1693), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Gottfried Christoph Richter]: Digital version
- Edition 1742 (Jena: Heller): Digital version
Dissertatio inauguralis de iure immunitatis a vectigalibus, certis personis competente (Kiel: Reumann, 1698), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Johann Heinrich von Sallern]: Digital version
Positiones iuris rationibus subnexis breviter illustratae (Kiel: Reumann, 1698),[Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Christian Detlev Brokdorff]: Digital version
Positiones inaugurales de iure quod marito circa personam uxoris obtingit (Kiel: Reumann, 1699), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Johann Bartholomaeus Nasser]: Digital version
Disputatio juridica, de libello alternativo in actione hypothecaria admittendo (Kiel: Reuther, 1701), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Johann Valentin Rumpel].
Disputatio juridica, de revocatione donationis ob præstitam contra donatorem advocationem (Kiel: Reuther, 1702), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Franz Johann Singelmann].
Dissertatio inauguralis. de pretio juris Justinianei Sacri: In qua autoritas ususve illius in Germaniæ judiciis (Kiel: Reuther, 1702), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Theodor Wolff]: Digital version
Dissertatio inauguralis, de vindicta prætextu defensionis adumbrata (Kiel: Reuther, 1702), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Andreas Heincke].
Disputatio juridica Fridericiana de amissa possessione agri inundati (Kiel: Reuther, 1703), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Friedrich Joachim von Creutz].
Disputatio iuridica Fridericiana de restitutione in integrum contra praescriptionem ex capite ignorantiae (Kiel: Reuther, 1704), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Gustav Otto von Fabrice].
Disputatio iuridica Fridericiana de foro rei sitae etiam ad res mobiles quasvis pertinente (Kiel: Reuther, 1705), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Peter Mummens].
Disputatio juridica, de actionis publicianæ origine, fundamento, natura et requisitis in genere (Kiel: Reuther, 1707), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Detlef Goering]: Digital version
Disputatio inauguralis iuridica, de intercessionibus foeminarum nobilium Slesvicensium et Holsaticarum (Kiel: Reuther, 1708), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Friedrich Joachim von Creutz]: Digital version
Disputatio juridica, de obligatione perfecta (Kiel: Reuther, 1708), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: C. A Hecklaw]: Digital version
Disputatio inauguralis iuridica, de differentiis iuris civilis et lutici, vulgo Loh-Buch (Kiel: Reuther, 1708), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Johannes Volbertus Ebers]: Digital version
Disputatio iuridica inauguralis, selectas ex iure naturae controversias breviter sistens (Kiel: Reuther, 1708), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Johannes Brokes]: Digital version
Disputatio inauguralis iuridica de iudicio virginum sanctimonialium monastico (Kiel: Reuther, 1708), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Johann Jacob Adami]: Digital version
Dissertatio de juribus in Parmae et Placentiae ducatus a pontifice male praetensis vel usurpatis, (Kiel: Reuther, 1709), [Praeses: Simon Henricus Musaeus, Respondent: Johann Fridericus Artzbergius].
Defensio dissertationis de origine juris naturalis, (1713).
Manuscript Sources
Natural Law Network
Personal Connections
1671\.., Samuel Rachel, Kiel [Attended jurisprudence lectures by Samuel Racher]
1671\.., Nicolaus Martini, Kiel [Attended jurisprudence lectures by Nicolaus Martini]
1671\.., Daniel Georg Morhof, Kiel [Attended jurisprudence lectures by Daniel Georg Morhof. Later colleague at University of Kiel ]
1689, Georg Pasch, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1701, Christian Kortholt, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1704, Christoph Heinrich Amthor, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1708, Andreas Ludwig Königsmann, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1708, Friedrich Gentzke, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
References and Acknowledgement
Profile References
Literature
Ratjen, Henning: “Musäus, Simon Heinrich” in Chronik der Universität zu Kiel, 1858, (Kiel: C. F. Mohr, 1859), p. 34-38.
Röhrich, Wilfried: “Musäus, Simon Heinrich” in Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon, vol. 4, (Neumünster: 1976), p. 171-173.
Volbehr, Friedrich & Richard Weyl: Professoren und Dozenten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665-1915 (Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1916) p. 26, 45, 49, 93.
Sources
Matriculation (Giessen): Die Matrikel der Universität Giessen, 1608-1707 ed. Ernst Klewitz & Karl Ebel (Giessen: J. Ricker, 1898), p. 8.
Matriculation (Jena): Matrikel der Universität Jena 1669-1696 [Jena Universitätsarchiv], p. 40v; URL: https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00267758/Ms-Prof-f-112_0085.tif?logicalDiv=jportal_jparticle_00624045
Matriculation (Kiel): Das Album der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665 - 1865 ed. Franz Gundlach (Kiel, 1915), p. 11, no. 544.
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Mikkel Munthe Jensen
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How to Cite This Profile
Jensen, Mikkel Munthe, "Simon Heinrich Musäus" in Natural Law 1625-1850: Database, ed. Mikkel Munthe Jensen (Erfurt, Gotha, Jena: ThULB, 2019-), Canonical URL: https://naturallawdatabase.thulb.uni-jena.de/item/natlaw_2