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Rudolph Goclenius
Rudolph Göckel or Rudolf Goclenius [the Older] (1 March 1547 - 8 June 1628) was a German scholastic philosopher, credited with inventing the terms psychology (1590), and ontology (1613). He was born in Corbach, Waldeck (now Korbach,Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse), and died in Marburg.

He attended the universities in Erfurt, Marburg and Wittenberg, where he finished his studies with a M.A. in 1571. In the following years he directed the gymnasiums in his hometown Korbach and in Kassel. In 1581, Landgraf Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel, who was a reputed astronomer, refused his wish to return to Korbach, but allowed him to be appointed professor at the Philipps University of Marburg, where he had the chairs of philosophy, logic, metaphysics and ethics. He served as a counsellor to Wilhelm and his son Moritz. The latter sent him 1618 to the Synod of Dordrecht.

He was highly literate and wrote articles on many subjects, not only philosophy but also mathematics, geography, astrology/astronomy, botanic, zoology, medicine. But he was essentially a lexicographer, with few own ideas which might have advanced science.

His oldest son Rudolf Goclenius, Jr. was professor in Marburg.

From his dispute with Wilhelm Adolph Scribonius of Marburg on the legality of the ordeal by water in witch trials, one can deduce that Goclenius was convinced on the existence of witchcraft and adhered to the "Hexenhammer".

Publications

  • Psychologia: hoc est, De hominis perfectione, animo et in primus ortu hujus, commentationes ac disputationes quorundam theologorum & philosophorum nostra aeatis, Marburg 1590
  • Oratio de natura sagarum in purgatione examinatione per Frigidam aquis innatantium, Marburg 1590.
  • Problematum logicorum, 1590
  • Partitio dialectica, Frankfurt 1595
  • Isagoge in peripateticorum et scholasticorum primam philosopiam, quae dici consuevit metaphysica, 1598
  • Institutionum logicarum de inventione liber unus, Marburg 1598
  • Isagoge in Organum Aristotelis, 1598
  • Physicae completae speculum, Frankfurt 1604
  • Dilucidationes canonum philosophicorum, Lich 1604
  • Controversia logicae et philosophiae, ad praxin logicam directae, quibus praemissa sunt theoremata seu praecepta logica, Marburg 1604
  • Conciliator philosophicus, 1609
  • Lexicon philosophicum, quo tantam clave philosophiae fores aperiuntur, 1613
  • Lexicon philosophicum Graecum, Marburg 1615

Further reading

  • Diana Kremer, "Von erkundigung und Prob der Zauberinnen durchs kalte Wasser". Wilhelm Adolph Scribonius aus Marburg und Rudolf Goclenius aus Korbach zur Rechtmäßigkeit der "Wasserprobe" im Rahmen der Hexenverfolgung, in: Geschichtsblätter für Waldeck, Bd. 84, 1996, S. 141 - 168.
  • Rudolf Schmitz, Die Naturwissenschaften an der Philipps-Universität Marburg 1517 - 1927, Marburg 1978, S. 15 f.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder, Grundlage zu einer hessischen Gelehrten und Schriftsteller Geschichte. Seit der Reformation bis auf gegenwärtige Zeiten, 4. Band, Göttingen 1784, S. 428 ff.
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Scholastic (IPA: /skɒˈlæstɪk/ or /skoʊˈlæstɪk/) is the official student publication of the University of Notre Dame.
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Philosophy is the discipline concerned with questions of how one should live (ethics); what sorts of things exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics); what counts as genuine knowledge (epistemology); and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic).
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Psychology (from Greek: Literally "talk about the soul" (from logos)) is both an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior.
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Ontology is a study of conceptions of reality and the nature of being. In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek ὤν, genitive ὄντος: of being (part.
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The University of Erfurt was founded in 1392 as the third university in the territory which is now Germany; for some time, it was the largest university in the country.
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A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary.

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Rudolf Goclenius, Jr. (22 August 1572 in Wittenberg - 3 March 1621 in Marburg) was a German physician and professor of physics, medicine and mathematics at the Philipps University of Marburg.
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Witchcraft (from Old English "sorcery , necromancy"), in various historical, anthropological, religious and mythological contexts, is the use of certain kinds of supernatural or magical powers.
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Malleus Maleficarum[2](Latin for "The Hammer of Witches", or "Hexenhammer" in German) is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. It was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, and was first published in Germany in 1487.
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