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Hermann Conring (
November 9,
1606 –
December 12,
1681) was a North German intellectual. He made significant contributions to the study of medicine, politics and law.
Descended from
Lutheran clergy on both sides of his family, second-youngest of ten children, Conring showed early promise as a student. During his life as a professor in North Germany, Conring addressed himself first to medicine, producing significant studies on blood circulation, and later in his career addressed himself to politics.
Early life
Conring was born in
Norden, a coastal town in
East Frisia, a territory ruled at that time by the
counts of Cirksena. Like many areas of what would later become Germany, Conring's homeland exhibited considerable religious variety and strife. Lutheran in the countryside (and in the piety of its counts), East Frisia nonetheless sheltered a bastion of Calvinism in its chief city,
Emden. Conring and his family were no strangers to confessional altercations. Many of Conring's forebears were ministers, and his father and paternal grandfather, in particular, were apparently compelled to change their circumstances on several occasions in response to Protestant religious conflict.
Conring was one of ten siblings, two of whom died in infancy, six more of whom died of the
plague in
1611.
Schooling
Conring began his schooling early, as befit a descendant of literate clerical forebears, entering school in Norden at the age of six, and beginning his studies in
Latin a year later. About ninety years earlier,
Luther had bestowed a powerful legitimacy upon the
German language with his
translation of the Bible into German, but, as in other European countries, Latin remained the official language of learning for centuries. By the age of 14, Conring had developed into a skilled Latinist, broadly familiar with ancient classical writings and with the leading Latin writers of his own day and region.
In 1620, at the age of 14, Conring began to take courses in the philosophy curriculum at the
university of Helmstedt, one of the leading northern European
universities of its day, where he'd study for the next five years.
Teaching
Lindenfeld calls Conring a
Neo-Aristotelian. The term
philosophy meant something rather different in his time. It referred to a branch of inquiry that sought chiefly to explicate law, religion and politics in terms laid down by ancient thinkers, particularly
Aristotle, who in Conring's circles would often have been known simply as "the philosopher". Lindenfeld says that in 1660 Conring was the first to lecture on
Statistik, the forerunner of modern
government statistics; but the topic was political science.
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