Samuel von Pufendorf
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Samuel von Pufendorf was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist and historian. He was born Samuel Pufendorf and ennobled in 1694; he was made a baron by Charles XI of Sweden a few months be
1706 engraving
Statue of Pufendorf on the Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg, France.
De officio hominis et civis juxta legem naturalem, 1758
De jure naturae et gentium, 1744
Holy Roman Empire
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The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity comprised of and controlling much of Central Europe and Western Europe, headed by the Holy Roma
Samuel von Pufendorf
…of Verona, Severinus de Monzambano, to his brother Laelius. The pamphlet caused a sensation. Its author directly challenged the organization of the Holy Roman Empire, denounced in the strongest terms the faults of the house of Austria, and attacked with vigour the politics of the ecclesiastical princes. Before…
The Holy Roman Empire during the Ottonian dynasty
Henry begging Matilda of Tuscany and Hugh of Cluny in Canossa Castle (miniature in an illuminated manuscript kept in the Vatican Library, 1115)
Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor