Konrad Summenhart

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Konrad Summenhart (Latin: Conradus Summenhart; c. 1450 – 20 October 1502) was a German theologian, canonist, and natural philosopher.

Biography

Konrad Summenhart was born in Calw. After his studies, which took him to Heidelberg and Paris, Konrad Summenhart taught in Tübingen, where he was, among other things, rector of the university and dean of the faculty of arts several times. Since 1484 he worked at the Faculty of Theology in Tübingen. He is considered one of the most important scholars of his time.

Summenhart, who was concerned with theology, jurisprudence, economics, and natural philosophy, was a representative of a pre-Reformation reform theology. His works contain few traces of the new humanist trend in Germany. Some of his works presented ecclesiastical matters in a critical light, especially monastic abuses. This made him a precursor of the Reformation.

He died of the plague at Schuttern Abbey in Offenburg.

He belonged to the theological current that supported the illicitness of insurance, along with Jacopo Passavanti. In his treatise De contractibus licitis, atque illicitis, the author believes that the insurance contract — likened to betting and gambling — is illicit because the parties' obligations arise from a fortuitous event and the insurer makes a profit without participating in the safeguarding of the insured thing.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Pesce, P. G. (1966). La Dottrina degli Antichi Moralisti circa la Liceità del Contratto di Assicurazione. Roma: Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni, pp. 36–66.

References

  • Feld, Helmut (1996). "Konrad Summenhart". In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 11. Herzberg: Bautz, pp. 260–62.
  • Feld, Helmut (2008). "Konrad Summenhart (um 1458–1502). Der Phönix unter Deutschlands Gelehrten". In: Sönke Lorenz & Volker Schäfer, eds., Tubingensia. Impulse zur Stadt- und Universitätsgeschichte; Festschrift für Wilfried Setzler. Ostfildern: Thorbecke, pp. 151–64.
  • Feld, Helmut (2013). "Summenhart, Konrad". In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 25. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2013, p. 705.
  • Haller, Johannes (1927–1929). Die Anfänge der Universität Tübingen 1477–1537. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer.
  • Hermelink, Heinrich (1906). Die theologische Fakultät in Tübingen vor der Reformation 1477–1534. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr.
  • Linsenmann, Franz Xaver (1877). Konrad Summenhart: Ein Culturbild aus den Anfängen der Universität Tübingen. Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues.
  • Ott, Hugo (1966). "Zur Wirtschaftsethik des Konrad Summenhart ca. 1455–1502". In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. 53, No. 1, pp. 1–27.
  • Schulte, Johann Friedrich von (1894). "Summenhart, Konrad". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 37. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 155.
  • Urban, Wolfgang (1983). "Vom Astrolabium, dem Vacuum und der Vielfalt der Welten. Paul Scriptoris und Konrad Summenhart: Zwei Gelehrte zwischen Scholastik und Humanismus". In: Attempto 69, pp. 49–55.
  • Varkemaa, Jussi (2012). Conrad Summenhart's Theory of Individual Rights. Leiden: Brill.

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