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Kaeuffelin, Johann Matthias (* 1696.03.11 † 1751.02.09)
Biographical and Intellectual Profile
Biography
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Biographical Data
Education
1710.11.01 - ../1731, University of Tübingen (Rematriculated 1720.08.17)
Degrees
../1720, Magister philosophiae, University of Tübingen (In 1720, as Kaeuffelin rematriculated, he was registered as magister)
Teaching
1735-1737, Winter and summer semesters, "Natural law, divine natural law", public lecture courses, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Kiel (On his lecture course on divine natural law, Kaeuffelin refers in 1737 to Christian Wolff)
1738, Summer semester, "General principles of natural law", public lecture course, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Kiel
Career
.. - ../1731, Private teacher in Hamburg
.. - ../1731, Writer in Hamburg
1731 - 1733, Docentus, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy
1733 - 1735, Ordinary professor of German eloquence and poetry, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy
1735 - 1738, Ordinary professor of natural law, public law and practical philosophy, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy (Discharged and expelled in 1738)
1735 - 1738, University librarian, University of Kiel
1738 - 1751, Writer in Hamburg
Bibliographical Data
Printed Sources
Books
Die guten Beschäfftigungen eines in die Ewigkeit hineilenden Gläubigen, wurden in einer Gedächtniß-Predigt des ... Herrn Christoph Woltereck, Hoch-Fürstl Braunschw. Lüneburgischen Ober-Amtmanns, bey dem Residentz-Amte zu Wolffenbüttel, am 11. Sonntag nach Trinit. 1735. ... In der Haupt-Kirche daselbst ... vorgestellet (Wolffenbüttel: Christian Bartsch, 1737): Digital version
Rerum aetatis nostrae bellicarum et civilium ... periculum sive de rebus gestis (Hamburg: 1744/50).
Dissertations
Dissertatio apologetica de fragmentis irenæi anecdotis deque oblatione et consecratione veterum eucharistica adversus virum illustrissimum, scipionem maffejum (Tübingen: Sigmund, 1718), [Praeses: Christoph Matthaeus Pfaff, Respondents: Johannes Ludovicus Laiblin; Johann Matthias Kaeuffelin].
Cogitationes de eloquentia heroic (Kiel: Lüderus, 1731), [Praeses: Johann Matthias Kaeuffelin, Respondent: Johann Benedikt Bredefeld]: Digital version
Manuscript Sources
Natural Law Network
Personal Connections
1733, Sebastian Kortholt, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1733, Friedrich Gentzke, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1733, Philipp Friedrich Hane, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1733, Franz Ernst Vogt, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1733, Friedrich Gottlieb Struve, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1733, Johann Zacherias Hartmann, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1737, Amandus Christian Dorn, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
1738, Gottfried Heinrich Elend, Kiel [Colleague at University of Kiel]
References and Acknowledgement
Profile References
Literature
Volbehr, Friedrich & Richard Weyl: Professoren und Dozenten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665-1915 (Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1916) p. 95.
Sources
Matriculation (Tübingen): Die Matrikel der Universität Tübingen. Band 2 (1600-1710) ed. Albert Bürk and Wilhelm Wille (Tübingen: 1953), p.3, No. 30825, p. 40, No. 31865.
Online Resources
Beneke, Otto: "Käuffelin, Johann Matthäus" in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 15 (1882), p. 463 [Online-Version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd101793561.html#adbcontent
Schröder, Hans: Lexikon der hamburgischen Schriftsteller bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 3, (Hamburg: 1857), p. 527-529, No. 1866: Digital version
Acknowledgement
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Mikkel Munthe Jensen
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How to Cite This Profile
Jensen, Mikkel Munthe, "Johann Matthias Kaeuffelin" 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_21