Bartholomäus Keckermann (ca. 1572 – 1609) in Danzig was a German writer, Calvinist theologian and philosopher. He is known for his Analytic Method. As a writer on rhetoric

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western...

, he is compared to Gerhard Johann Vossius

Gerhard Johann Vossius

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, and considered influential in Northern Europe and England.

Biography

Keckermann studied under Fabricius

Fabricius

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 at the Universities of Wittenberg, Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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 and Heidelberg, where he became a Professor. In 1601 he returned to his home town to teach as rector (1602-1609) at the Gymnasium of Danzig. His numerous works were published towards the end of his short life, or (most of them) posthumously.

Keckermann from Danzig, Borussia (Prussia) is described in Melchior Adam

Melchior Adam

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's works.

Publications

Publications:

• 1598, Praecognitorum Logicorum Tractatus tres Leipzig 1598, reprinted in his Opera Omnia Tomus Primus (Geneva, 1614)
• 1600, Systema logicae, tribus libris adornatum, pleniore praeceptorum methodo, et commentariis scriptis ad praeceptorum illustrationem. Hanoviae: Antonius 1600, 6. ed. 1613; letzte Aufl. 1620
• 1600, Systema grammaticae Hebraeae, sive, sanctae linguae exactior methodus. Hanoviae: Antonius, ca. 1600
• 1602, Systema S. S. Theologiæ, Tribvs Libris adornatum. Methodum ac Dispositione[m] operis Tabvla præfixa adumbrat. Cum indice rerum & verborum locupletissimo. Hanoviæ: Apud Guilielmum Antonium 1602
• 1606, Systema logicae minus succincto praeceptorum compendio tribus libris adornatum ... ut sevire possio gymnasio Dantisco. Hanoviae.
• 1607, Systema Ethicæ. Tribus libris adornatum [et] publicis prælectionibus traditum in Gymnasio Dantiscano. Londini, Ex Officina Nortoniana, 1607: auch Hanoviae: Antonius 1607, 2. ed.
• 1607, Systema disciplinae politicae, publicis praelectionibus anno 1606 propositum in gymnasio Dantiscano, a. Seorsim accessit Synopsis disciplinae oeconomicae, eodem auctaure. Hanoviae.
• 1608, Systematis selectorum ius Iustinianeum et feudale concernentium volumen alterum continens quatuor illius partes posteriores. Francofurti ad Moenum: Sauer, Johann Fischer, Peter Erben.
• 1608, Systema rhetorica, in quo artis praecepta plene et methodica traduntur a 1606 privatim propositum in Gymnasio Dantiocano. Hanoviae.
• 1609, Apparatus practicus sive idea methodica et plena totius philosophiae practicae
• 1609, Scientiae Metaphysicae Systema
• 1610, Systema Ethicum
• 1611, Systema astronomiae compendiosum
• 1612, Systema geographicum
• 1612, Systema logicae plenioris
• 1612, Systema physicum
• 1613, Systema praeceptorum logicorum
• 1613, Systema systematum

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