Front Page Authors (by Period) Samuel von Pufendorf

Samuel von Pufendorf

1632 - 1694

About the Author

Samuel Pufendorf was born in Saxony in 1632, the son of a Lutheran clergyman. He studied at Leipzig and Jena and held the first modern professorship in natural law, at the University of Heidelberg. Pufendorf was successively professor of natural law at Lund in Sweden and Swedish historiographer royal. He ended his career as Prussian court historian and died in Berlin in 1694. In addition to fundamental works in Protestant natural law, much admired by Locke, Pufendorf contributed importantly to German constitutional theory and wrote major historical works.

In The Library:

• author: The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented (1695)
• author: Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion, in Reference to Civil Society (1687)
• author: The Present State of Germany (1696)
• author: The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (1673)