Rudolph Goclenius
[4] In 1581, Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel, a renowned astronomer, denied Goclenius's request to return to Korbach but allowed him to become a professor at the Philipps University of Marburg.
[10] Johann Balthasar Schupp satirically recounted that Goclenius claimed his work Analecta (published 1598 in Lich) was the best book he had ever written.
[13] City historian Wolfgang Medding has suggested that this poem was inspired by an aurora,[14] a hypothesis supported by historical records of auroral observations.
After his burial, which took place two days later, Wolfgang Riemenschneider (Loriseca) gave a speech in which he praised Goclenius as "leader of today's philosophers, Marburgian Plato, European light, Hessian immortal glory".
[19] Abraham Saur, a jurist in Marburg, recorded the following in his chronicle for April 10: M. Rudolphus Goclerius [sic] holds wedding.
He belonged to a group called “Semiramists,” which consisted of Aristotelians advocating both dialectic interpretation of Aristotle's teachings and the exposition of Ramism.
'[25] Contemporary authors have slightly modified Goclenius's wording to imply that this selection would suffice to fill all the pulpits of philosophers.
[26] Another author felt compelled to clear up a contemporary semantic misunderstanding, according to which Goclenius' use of the word 'Bible' in relation to Scaliger's Exercitationes indicates an overestimation of reason among Calvinists.
[29] This can be attributed to the statutes set by Landgrave Philip I on January 14, 1564, which mandated that professors at the University of Marburg conduct weekly examinations.
The second thesis, in contrast, denies that the rational aspect alone constitutes the form of man, suggesting a more integrated view (personaliter) of the human being.
[34] His anthology ΨΥΧΟΛΟΓΙΑ: hoc est, de hominis perfectione, animo, et in primis ortu hujus, published in 1590, became the first book to feature the term 'psychology' in its title.
He explored the challenging and profound nature of understanding the mind (animus), the differing philosophical views on the sources of truth and knowledge, and the significance of this inquiry despite its difficulty.
The full title of the book translates to English as 'Psychology: that is, on the perfection of man, his mind, and especially its origin—the comments and discussions of certain theologians and philosophers of our time who are shown on the following page.'
Research over the past decades has gradually identified the sources of the treatises since the book lacks bibliographic references in the modern sense.
In the 17th century, Goclenius' ΨΥΧΟΛΟΓΙΑ was widely read and quoted by scholars such as Robert Burton,[37] Daniel Sennert,[38] and Jakob Thomasius.
[42] Friedrich August Carus, in 1808, had referred to Goclenius' ΨΥΧΟΛΟΓΙΑ as a Lehrbuch ('textbook'), placed in temporal succession to Casmann’s Psychologia anthropologica (1594).
This, at least on a linguistic level, is more in line with the fact that Goclenius used the Latin verb 'congessi' (collect, bring together) in his dedicatory letter to Berlepsch to characterize his approach.
[44] In the words of the British logician Carveth Read: "It is the shining merit of Goclenius to have restored the Premises of the Sorites to the usual order of Fig.
"[47]Bibliographies of Goclenius's writings were compiled by Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder (Grundlage zu einer hessischen Gelehrten und Schriftsteller Geschichte, Bd.
These manuscripts include letters, observations, dissertations, various critiques, and poems (Bibliothecae Uffenbachianae Universalis, Tomus III, Frankfurt 1730, pp.
