Daniel Clasen, in Latin Danielis Clasenius or Clasenus (1 May 1622, Lüneburg – 20 November 1678,[1] Helmstedt), was a German political theorist, religious scholar, and classicist.
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His treatises, written in Latin, dealt with law, jurisprudence, religion, and politics. Clasen was one of the earliest theorists of political religion, though preceded by Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639),[2] and argued against accommodation theory.[3]
Clasen was a major mythographer of the 17th century,[4] and wrote commentaries on classical texts such as the so-called Tablet of Cebes (Cebetis Tabula vitae humanae), for which he provided a Latin translation.[5]
Works
editClasen's works include:
- Commentarius in constitutiones criminales Caroli V. Imperatoris
- De religione politica
- De iure legitimationis exercitatio iuridica
- Exercitatio iuridica de patria potestate
- Politicae compendium succinctum cum notis
- De iure aggratiandi
- Theologia gentilis (vol. 7 of the series Thesaurus Graecarum antiquitatum edited by Jakob Gronovius)
- De oraculis gentilium et in specie de vaticiniis Sibyllinis
References
edit- ^ J.F. von Schulte, Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts (The Lawbook Exchange, 2000, 2008), p. 49.
- ^ Raymond Trousson, Le thème de Prométhée dans la littérature européenne (Librairie Droz, 1964, 3rd ed. 2001) p. 204.
- ^ Martin Mulson, "Cartesianism, Skepticism and Conversion to Judaism: The Case of Aaron d'Antan," in Secret Conversions to Judaism in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2004), p. 138, note 44.
- ^ Trousson, Le thème de Prométhée, p. 204.
- ^ Daniel Clasen, Cebetis Tabula vitae humanae recte instituendae de scriptionem continens cum commentariis (1652 edition), full text online, with parallel Greek text and Latin translation.