Hermann Conring (* 9 November 1606 in the north; "† 12 December 1681 in Helmstedt), son of the minister Hermann Conring and his Mrs. Galathea Copin, was Polyhistor, body physician of the queen Christina v. Sweden, Danish Council of State and director/conductor of Bremen verdischen archives in Stade. Its father-in-law was Johann stucco.

Conring is considered as Nestor of the German jurisprudence and was one of the most well-known scholars of his time, the all large princes of its time, so also to Ludwig XIV. of France as advisors to the side stood. Its Hauptwerk is "“De origine iuris Germanici"” (of the origin of the German right, editio great: 1643), which raised the German historical jurisprudence for the rank of its own discipline.

Also in the political historiography it made itself with its work "“De finibus imperii Germanici"” (1654) a name.

In the medicine its theory of the cycle of the blood became trend-setting.

Conring was a professor at the University of Helmstedt, at which he taught nature philosophy, medicine and politics, and was there also several times a rector and Dekan. By appraisals and pieces of advice he promoted the famous library (today duke August library). A from it is there. He was legal adviser of the house Cirksena, which was raised under its assistance into the prince conditions.

Latin inscription on its gravestone, which stands on a property in largely is expressed in German: In this hill decided the advisor of kings and prince, doctor of public international law, connoisseur of entire philosophy, the practical and theoretical, a ausgeseichneter Philologe, is speaker, poet, historian, physician, theologian. You believe many are here One is it: Hermann Conring, the miracle of the century.

Literature

• Wolf, Erik. Large right philosophers. 4. Edition, 1963.

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• Proof in the Analytic Bibliography OF on-line Neo Latin of text
• Biography
• General German biography volume 4, P. 446-451 Conring, Hermann

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