Johann Franz Buddeus

Johann Franz Buddeus or Budde (sometimes Johannes Franciscus Buddeus; 25 June 1667,

Lutheran

theologian and philosopher.

Life

Johann Franz Buddeus was a descendant of the French scholar

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and those who emigrated to Pomerania Germanized their name as Budde, the Latin equivalent of which was Buddeus.^[1]

Johann Franz was born at

University of Wittenberg in 1685. He was appointed adjunct professor of philosophy there soon after taking his master's degree in 1687, and in 1689 exchanged this for a similar position at Jena

, where he also paid much attention to the study of history.

In 1692, he went to

University of Halle

as professor of moral philosophy. Here he remained until 1705, when he went to Jena as second professor of theology. His lectures embraced all branches of this science, and frequently touched on philosophy, history, and politics.

He remained at Jena for the rest of his life, several times acting as rector of the university temporarily and being head of his department and an ecclesiastical councilor from 1715.

He was considered the most universally accomplished German theologian of his time. In philosophy he professed an

Johannes Musäus at Jena, partly through his close relations with Baier; but on another side he was inclined toward Pietism

.

Works

His works number over a hundred. Those published during the Halle period include Elementa philosophiæ practicæ (1697) and Elementa philosophiæ eclecticæ (1703).

To the second Jena period belong among others the Institutiones theologiæ moralis (1711; German transl., 1719), a work strictly in accordance with his philosophical ethics; the Historia ecclesiastica veteris testamenti (1715–18); Theses theologicæ de atheismo et superstitione (1716), which, directed especially against

Spinoza, attracted much attention; Institutiones theologiæ dogmaticæ (1723), a work once very influential, obviously founded on Baier's Compendium; Historische und theologische Einleitung in die vornehmsten Religionsstreitigkeiten (1724, 1728), edited by Walch; Isagoge historico-theologica ad theologiam universam (1727), dealing with the problems methods, and history of theology in a way remarkable for that time; and Ecclesia apostolica (1729), intended as an introduction to the study of the New Testament

.

Collected works

Gesammelte Schriften. Reprint Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1999–2006 (10 vols.)

Notes

^ George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 3 (Appleton, 1873), pp. 393, 404.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) "Johannes Franciscus Buddeus"

Vladimir Abashnik, Johann Franz Budde. In: The Dictionary of eighteenth-century German philosophers. General editors: Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn. In 3 vol. London: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2010, Vol. 1: A – G, pp. 164–169.

External links

Johann Franz Buddeus at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

[1] George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 3 (Appleton, 1873), pp. 393, 404.

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