Titles by Samuel von Pufendorf

1632 – 1694

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.

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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.

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Titles

The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented

Samuel von Pufendorf

An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe (1682, 2013)

Samuel von Pufendorf

Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion, in Reference to Civil Society

Samuel von Pufendorf

The Present State of Germany

Samuel von Pufendorf

Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence

Samuel von Pufendorf

The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (1673, 2003)

Samuel von Pufendorf

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