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Mikkel Munthe Jensen
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2026-04-29
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Gentzke, Friedrich (* 1678.02.18 † 1757.03.27)

Basic Overview Data

Born
1678.02.18, Usedom
Died
1757.03.27, Kiel
Confession
Protestant, Lutheran
Institutional Affiliation
University of Kiel
Keywords
Protestant, Lutheran
Normdata
VIAF: 173951487
GND: 1014240549
Biography

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Teaching
1709-1756, Summer and winter semesters, "Natural law, civil philosophy, divine law, natural theology", public and private lecture courses, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Kiel
Career
1708 - 1721, Extraordinary professor of philosophy, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy
1721 - 1725, Ordinary professor of physics and politics, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy
1725 - 1757, Ordinary professor of philosophy and artis ratiocinandi, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy
1739 - 1757, Ordinary professor of moral, University of Kiel, Faculty of Philosophy

Printed Sources

Books

Introductio in theologiam naturalem: in qua praemissa existentiae divinae demonstratione, oppositisque erroribus sc. Atheismo, Spinozismo & superstitione confutatis, non solum secundum lumen insitae rationis Dei perfectiones ex solidis fundamentis adstruuntur, sed & ius Dei, eidemque respondentia hominum officia exponuntur, atque ita cognitio Dei cum modo eum colendi coniungitur (Kiel: Reuther, ../1720): Digital version
     - Edition 1720 (Kiel: Reuther): Digital version
     - Edition 1736, (Kiel: Reuther)


Tractatus ethico-physicus de passionibus, ubi affectus omnes tum generatim tum speciatim considerantur: eorumque natura, proprietates, diversæ species, objecta peculiaria, physici characteres, singularia phœnomena, naturalis & moralis usus, varii abusus, horumque moralia remedia justo ordine succincte sistuntur (Kiel: Literis Bartholdi Reutheri, 1707): Digital version
     - Edition 1720, (Kiel: Reuther): Digital version
     - Edition 1727, (Hamburg: Felginer): Digital version
     - Edition 1735, (Kiel: Reuther)


Introductio in philosophiam moralem: Ubi principia justi, honesti, et decori, observatis eorundem justis limitibus, & additis præcognitis generalioribus, ita proponuntur, ut præmissa singulis historica tractatione regulæ justi, honesti & decori e fundamentali propositione singulis conveniente deducuntur, nexuque perpetuo succincte sistuntur, in usum Dn. suorum Auditorum adornata, (Kiel: Literis Bartholdi Reutheri, 1709): Digital version
     - Edition 1711 (Kiel: Reuther)
     - Edition 1712 (Kiel: Reuther)


Introductio in philosophiam civilem quam vocant politicam: Ubi præmissa historica tractatione, & addita sectarum ibidem occurrentium differentia, non solum exponitur, quomodo simplices societates familiam efficiant, sed etiam qua ratione civitas secundum regulas iustitiæ, æquitatis & prudentiæ sit constituenda & administranda, ita ut omnia summi imperii iura debito ordine & nexu sistantur (Kiel: Reuthers, 1711): Digital version
     - Edition 1726, (Hamburg, Felginer): Digital version
     - Edition 1734, (Kiel: Reuther)


Metaphysica reformata… (Kiel: Richelius, 1713)


Pneumatologia sive Doctrina de Spiritibus Creatis: in qua præmissa historica eorundem tractatione, natura & proprietates spiritus creati in genere sistuntur, & speciatim essentia Naturarum plasticarum, Animarum in brutis, & mentis humanæ justo ordine ac succincte exponitur, omnesque huc pertinentes controversiæ eruuntur (Kiel: Reuthers, 1715): Digital version
     - Edition 1726, (Hamburg: Felginer): Digital version


De natura & proprietatibus probabilitatis, Einladung zu öffenlichen Vorlesungen, (Kiel: Reuther, 1717).


Historia Philosophiæ: in Qva Philosophorum celebrium vitæ, eorumque hypotheses notabiliores, (Kiel: Reuther, 1720): Digital version
     - Edition 1724 (Hamburg, Felginer): Digital version
     - Edition 1735, (Kiel: Reuther)


Doctrina universalium, quam vocant metaphysicam: in qua sequestratis inutilibus, generaliores ideæ, solidum fundamentum habentes (Kiel: Reuther, 1720) [listed as second edition, but the first edition has not been found]: Digital version
     - Edition 1725, (Hamburg: Felginer): Digital version
     - Edition 1732, (Kiel: Reuther)
     - Edition 1734, (Kiel: Reuther)
     - Edition 1735, (Kiel: Reuther)


Philosophiæ moralis exhibens iuris divini naturalis prudentiam in qua præmissis generalioribus præcognitis, præcepta justi e fundamentali propositione deducuntur, nexuque perpetuo succincte sistuntur (Kiel: Reuther, 1721).
     - Edition 1727 (Hamburg: Felginer): Digital version


Systema philosophiae: In usum juventutis academiae Cimbricae adornatum (Kiel: Litteris Johannis Christophori Revtheri, 1722): Digital version (Alternative digital version)
      - Edition 1725-1727, 3 vols (Hamburg, Felginer):
          - Vol. 1, (1725): Digital version
          - Vol. 2, (1726): Digital version
          - Vol. 3, (1727): Digital version 
     - Edition 1732, (Hamburg, Felginer)
     - Edition 1735-1736, 3 vols. (Hamburg, Felginer)


In qua leges divinae positionis universales in justa serie et nexu traduntur; ac controversiæ ibidem occurrentes, qua fieri potuit oerspicuitate et brevitate, enucleantur; in usum lectionum academicarum (Hamburg: Felginer, 1725): Digital version


In qua ea, quae ad ratiocinandi regulas, et veritatis ac probabilitatis naturam indolemque recte intelligendam pertinent (Hamburg: Felginer, 1725): Digital version


De varia metaphysices fortuna (Kiel: Reuther, 1725): Digital version


Ego Fridericvs Gentzkenivs notum facio omnibus haec lecturis, Fridericvm Vogtivm, Holsatum, reverenter a me petiisse, vt ipsum, Notarium publicum, Tabellionem & iudicem ordinarium constituerem (Kiel: 1725): Digital version


Kurtze Anweisung, glückselig zu leben: Worinnen Die Regeln der Frömmigkeit, Gerechtigkeit, Sittigkeit, Klugkeit und Manierlichkeit, in so weit sie aus der Vernunfft erkannt, zum Unterricht der Jugend aufs deutlichste vorgestellet warden (Hamburg: Felginer, 1732) [This is the third print].

Dissertations

Dissertatio moralis de quaestione: An leges naturae sint stricte et proprie dictae leges? (Greifswald: Henrici Adolphi, 1704), [Praeses: Johann Philipp Palthen, Respondent: Friedrich Gentzke].


Dissertatio moralis de principiis decori (Kiel: Reutherus, 1706), [Praeses: Friedrich Gentzke, Respondent: Michael Gude].


Dissertatio historico-moralis de principiis honesti (Kiel: Reuther, 1707), [Praeses: Friedrich Gentzke, Respondent: Friedrich Wedderkop].


Dissertatio moralis de matrimonio clandestino, Gallis dicto Le mariage de conscience (Kiel: Reutherus, 1709), [Praeses: Friedrich Gentzke, Respondent: Christian Jakob Degen].


De natura & propriatatibus animi humani, 2 vols. (Kiel: Reuther, 1710-1712), [Praeses: Friedrich Gentzke, Respondents: Henning Duncker, Michael Mantzel].
    - Vol 1 (1710)
    - Vol 2 (1712)


De jure divino circa ecclesiam (Kiel: Reuthers, 1711), [Praeses: Friedrich Gentzke, Christian Carstens].


Dissertatio de sapientia et prudential (Kiel: Reuther, 1717), [Praeses: Friedrich Gentzke, Respondent: Christian Friedrich Prange].

Manuscript Sources

Personal Connections
1708, Nicolaus Martini, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1708, Samuel Reyher, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1708, Simon Heinrich Musäus, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1708, Christoph Heinrich Amthor, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1708, Andreas Ludwig Königsmann, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1708, Sebastian Kortholt, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1713, Franz Ernst Vogt, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1721, Stephan Christoph Harpprecht von Harpprechstein, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1722, Johann Heinrich Heubel, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1725, Philipp Friedrich Hane, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1725, Johann Zacherias Hartmann, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1727, Friedrich Gottlieb Struve, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1733, Johann Matthias Kaeuffelin, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1737, Amandus Christian Dorn, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1738, Gottfried Heinrich Elend, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1743, Johann Jacob Quistorp, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1745, Johann Carl Heinrich Dreyer, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1753, Johann Wilhelm Gadendam, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]
1753, Karl Friedrich Winkler, Kiel [Colleague at Kiel University]

Profile References

Literature

Peter Rohs: Geschichte der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 1665-1965: Teil 5.1,. Geschichte der Philosophischen Fakultät (Neumünster: Wachholtz, 1969), p. 18-23.


Volbehr, Friedrich & Richard Weyl: Professoren und Dozenten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665-1915 (Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig, 1916) p. 95, 129.

Sources

Matriculation (Kiel): Das Album der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665 - 1865 ed. Franz Gundlach (Kiel, 1915), p. 59, no. 2989.


Matriculation (Greifswald): Greifswald: Universitätsmatrikel Vol. 3, p. 34r: https://www.digitale-bibliothek-mv.de/viewer/image/PPNmatrikel3/77/#topDocAnchor


Portrait: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; Bilddatei: onB8947590, URL: http://www.portraitindex.de/documents/obj/oai:baa.onb.at:8947590

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Jensen, Mikkel Munthe, "Friedrich Gentzke" in Natural Law 1625-1850: Database, ed. Mikkel Munthe Jensen (Erfurt, Gotha, Jena: ThULB, 2019-), Canonical URL: https://naturallawdatabase.thulb.uni-jena.de/item/natlaw_19
Mikkel Munthe Jensen, Last Update:  10.11.2025