Ernst KÃ¶nig and the Teaching of Natural Law at the Academic Gymnasia of Royal Prussia

GaÌbor GaÌngoÌ

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Chapter 4 Ernst KÃ¶nig and the Teaching of Natural Law at the Academic Gymnasia of Royal Prussia

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004545847_005

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The paper offers an overview, based on hitherto underexplored print and manuscript sources, of the institutionalisation of natural law as an academic discipline at all three academic gymnasia in the Polish province of Royal Prussia, i.e. TorunÌ, ElblaÌ¨g, and GdanÌsk. In this first synoptic account of the teaching of moral or political philosophy and jurisprudence based on natural law in these institutions, the author shows that the inspiration that Ernst KÃ¶nig, rector at TorunÌ and later ElblaÌ¨g, drew from Samuel Pufendorfâs works, De officio hominis et civis in particular, exerted a lasting impact, directly or indirectly, on the curricula of all three gymnasia. In contradistinction to Western academic institutions, the introduction of natural law as part of modern philosophy proved to be a reversible process in the PolishâLithuanian Commonwealth. From the mid-eighteenth century, the gymnasia in TorunÌ and ElblaÌ¨g returned to the humanist curriculum.

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Early Modern Natural Law in East-Central Europe

Series:Â Early Modern Natural Law: Studies & Sources, Volume: 5

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004545847

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 20 Apr 2023

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- History
  - Early Modern History
  - Legal History
- Slavic and Eurasian Studies
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Part 1 Poland-Lithuania

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