About Johann Jacob Müller
Lived 1650 – 1716 (aged 65–66). Johann Jacob Müller was a philosopher, jurist and university teacher.
Johann Jakob Müller (31 May 1650 - 13 April 1716) was a German moral philosopher.
Life Johann Jakob Müller was born at Jena in 1650. His father, another Johann Müller (1615-1688), was the deputy head of the city school. Johann Jakob Müller attended the school, then under the rectorship of Johann Martin Ringler. Recognising an exceptional talent, his parents also arranged for him to receive private tutoring at home from Anton Mosnern, a churchman from nearby Saalfeld. Aged only 15 Müller started attending lectures at the university. At the Philosophy faculty his teachers included Johann Frischmuth, Erhard Weigel, , , , Johannes Musaeus, Johann Wilhelm Baier and Friedemann Bechmann.
Publications (not a complete list)
Jena 1680 Disp. de Regressu demonstrativo. Jena 1680 Disp. de Fide fracta. Jena 1680 Disp. de Propaedeumatibus. Jena 1685 Disputatio de Imperio Dictatoris. Jena 1687 Institutiones Ethicae Positivo-Polemicae. Jena 1691 Institutiones Politicae Positivo-Polemicae ad filum Aristotelis concinnatae. Jena 1691, 1705 Institutiones Jurisprudentiae Gentium. Jena 1693 Disp. de Jure Transitus per alterius Territorium. Jena 1693 Disp. de jure Feciali. Jena 1693 Disp. de Morte vicaria. Jena 1695 Commentarius in Guil. Grotii Enchiridion de Principiis Juris Naturae. Jena 1696 Disp. de Fictionibus Juris Naturae et Gentium. Jena 1696 Disp. de Occisione Furis nocturni ad Hugo Grotii J. B. & P. II. I. Jena 1697 Disp. de summo Bono Civili non consistente in Divitiis. Jena 1697 Disp. de Jure Partis majoris. Jena 1697 Disp. de Obligatione Subditorum ex Delicto summae Potestatis ad Hug. Grotii de I. B. & P. lib. 2. C. 21. Jena 1698 Disp. de Syllogismis compositis. Jena 1698 Disp. de Modis abolendi Culpam et Reatum. Jena 1700 Disp. de Moralitate Reservationum mentalium in juramento. Jena 1701 Disp. de Praesumptionibus Moralibus. Jena 1701 Disp. de Virtutibus ac Vitiis Philosophorum Orientalium. Jena 1701 Disp. de Duellis Principum. Jena 1702 Disp. de Imperio Civili in Statu Innocentiae extituro. Jena 1703 Introductio in Artem Emblematicam. Jena 1706 Disp. de Imputatione Morali. Jena 1707 Disp de Jure Retorsionis inter Status Imperii. Jena 1707 Disp. de jure Superiorum in Juramenta Inferiorum. Jena 1708
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German moral philosopher (1650-1716)
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Johann Jacob Müller was born in 1650 in Jena.
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Johann Jacob Müller died in 1716 in Jena.
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Johann Jacob Müller was a philosopher, jurist and university teacher.
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