Clemens Timpler
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Clemens Timpler (1563 – 28 February 1624) was a German philosopher, physicist and theologian.
Along with James Degen, he is considered the most important Protestant metaphysician, establishing the Protestant Reformed Neuscholastik.
[edit] Life
Timpler was born in Stolpen. In 1600 he joined Bartholomew Keckermann studying philosophy at Leipzig. In April 1595, he became professor of physics at the high school Arnoldinum in Steinfurt and taught there until his death.
[edit] Texts
- Metaphysicae systema methodicum Steinfurt 1604
- Physicae Seu Philosophiae Naturalis Systema Methodicum, Hannover 1605
- Clementis Timpleri Technologia seu tractatus generalis de natura et differentiis artium liberalium; die gloria Dei als schlechthin letztes Ziel aller techne in Theorem 9.
- Exercitationum Philosophicarum Sectiones X : In Quibus Quaestiones Selectae Et Utiles, Praesertim Metaphysicae, ultra quadringentas, accurate & dilucide discutiuntur & enodantur Hannover: Antonius 1618
- Theoria Physica, De Sensu In Genere : Certis Thesibus comprehensa. Steinfurt: Caesar 1616
[edit] References
- M. Wundt:Der Deutsche Schulmetaphysik 17 Jahrhunderts, Tübingen, 1939, S. 75
- Joseph S.Freedman: European Academic Philosophy in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries the Life, Significance and Philosophy of Clemens Timpler (1563/4-1624) Hildesheim 1985 ISBN 3-487-09012-0, ISBN 978-3-487-09012-2
- Ders.: Karriere und Bedeutung von Clemens Timpler (1563/64-1624) In: Porträts aus vier Jahrhunderten Arnoldinum, Steinfurt Greven 1988, 69-77
- Ders.: The Soul ("anima") according to Clemens Timpler (1563/64-1624) and Some of his Central European Contemporaries Wiesbaden 2004, S.791-830
- Albert Röser: Clemens Timpler und die Metaphysik. In: Porträts aus vier Jahrhunderten Arnoldinum, Steinfurt (ibid)
- Karl Eschweiler: Die Philosophie der spanischen Spätscholastik auf den deutschen Universitäten des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts. , Münster: Aschendorff 1928 (Spanische Forschungen der Görres-Gesellschaft I), S. 251-325 (Digitalisat)
