Clemens Timpler
Clemens Timpler (1563 – 28 February 1624) was a German philosopher, physicist and theologian.
Along with Jakob Degen (1511–1587), he is considered an important Protestant metaphysician, establishing the Protestant Reformed Neuscholastik.
Life[edit]
Timpler was born in Stolpen. In 1600 he joined Bartholomew Keckermann studying philosophy at Leipzig. In April 1595, he became professor of physics at Gymnasium Arnoldinum, a high school in Steinfurt. He taught there until his death.
His unconventional approach to metaphysics is based on an all-thinkable (omne quod est intelligibile) and leads him in his physics to the idea of an experimental vacuum (1605); this puts him at the forefront of the development of the vacuum theory and its practicability in the history of ideas, before Evangelista Torricelli (1644) and Otto von Guericke.[1]
Publications[edit]
- 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
Further reading[edit]
- 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)
- 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 1988 ISBN 3-487-09012-0, ISBN 978-3-487-09012-2
- Joseph S.Freedman: Die Karriere und Bedeutung von Clemens Timpler (1563/64-1624) In: Porträts aus vier Jahrhunderten Arnoldinum, Steinfurt, Greven 1988, 69-77
- Joseph S.Freedman: Aristotelianism and Humanism in Late Reformation German Philosophy: The Case of Clemens Timpler, 1563/64-1624. In The Harvest of German Humanism. Papers in Honor of Lewis W. Spitz. Edited by Fleischer Manfred. St. Louis: Concordia Press 1992, 213-232
- Joseph S.Freedman: The Soul ("anima") according to Clemens Timpler (1563/64-1624) and Some of his Central European Contemporaries, Wiesbaden 2004, 791-830
- Joseph S.Freedman: Necessity, Contingency, Impossibility, Possibility, and Modal Enunciations within the Writings of Clemens Timpler (1563/4-1624). In Spätrenaissance-Philosophie in Deutschland 1570-1650. Entwürfe zwischen Humanismus und Konfessionalisierung, okkulten Traditionen und Schulmetaphysik. Edited by Mulsow Martin. Berlin: de Gruyter 2009, 293-318
- Albert Röser: Clemens Timpler und die Metaphysik. In: (ibid) Porträts aus vier Jahrhunderten Arnoldinum, Steinfurt Steinfurt 1988, 76-83
- Max Wundt: Der Deutsche Schulmetaphysik des 17 Jahrhunderts, Tübingen, 1939, 75 ss.
References[edit]
- ^ Jörg Hüttner & Martin Walter (Ed.) (2022). Clemens Timpler: Physicae seu philosophiae naturalis systema methodicum. Pars prima; complectens physicam generalem. Hildesheim / Zürich / New York: Georg Olms Verlag. pp. 28–37. ISBN 978-3-487-16076-4.
External links[edit]
- History of Ontology from Suarez to Kant
- The Birth of Ontology. A selection of Ontologists from 1560 to 1770
- Bibliography of Joseph S. Freedman on Philosophy in Central Europe (1500-1700) contains abstract of the publications on Timpler
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