Johann Nepomuk Endres
Johann Nepomuk Endres | |||
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| Born | January 15, 1730 | ||
| Died | May 4, 1791 (aged 61) | ||
| Nationality | German | ||
| Citizenship | Germany | ||
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Johann Nepomuk Endres (15 January 1730 † 4 May 1791) was a German theologian and jurist. He is significant in intellectual history as a natural law thinker of the Catholic Enlightenment. There he is assigned to the Würzburg School (Johann Kaspar Barthel, Georg Christoph Neller, Johann Adam von Ickstatt).
Endres was appointed full professor of canon law at the University of Würzburg in 1771. Of scientific importance for canon studies as well as the philosophy of state and law is today from the point of view of intellectual history in particular his dissertation of 1761 on the necessity of natural law. In the age of rational law and the Enlightenment, Endres developed not only a Christian doctrine of natural law but also a theory of the relationship between state and church by establishing the independence and power of self-rights of the Catholic Church from an analogy of state and church form of government.
References
- ↑ Johann Friedrich von Schulte: Endres, Johann Nepomuk. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 110. Andreas Lukas: Endres, Johann Nepomuk. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Band 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8, Sp. 409–413. Friedrich Merzbacher: "Der Kanonist Johann Nepomuk Endres (1730-1791). Leben und Werk eines deutschen Kirchenrechtslehrers vor der Säkularisation", in: Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht 139 (1970), 42–68
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