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Bartholomaeus Keckermann (d. 1609) was a Reformed Protestant who taught at the University of Heidelberg and thereafter at the Gymnasium Athenaeum in Danzig (Gdaήsk). Innovative was the publication of his writings on logic in multiple formats and his use of the concept of the systematic textbook (systema). Although he did not publish an encyclopedia, his publications cover a very wide range of subject matters; most of his monograph-length publications are included within two separate two-volume collections (in 1613 and 1614) of his publications as well as a separate collection (in 1617) of his publications falling within the parameters of mathematics. Keckermann’s writings were widely read for many decades after his death.
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Primary Literature
A substantial portion of Keckermann’s published and unpublished writings are cited in Freedman, “Keckermann” (1997), with library locations and call numbers of all editions and imprints that were utilized. Here the following writings are cited in abbreviated form:
De natura et proprietatibus historiae commentarius. 1610, 1621.
Goclenius, Rudolph. Resolutio systematis logici maioris (Keckermanni) in tabellae pleniores, quam quae antehac fuerunt. 1610, 1612, 1614, 1617, 1620, 1621, 1628, 1631.
Gymnasium logicum … de usu et exercitatione logicae … libri tres. 1605, 1606, 1608, 1621.
Introductio ad lectionem Ciceronis. 1610, 1615.
Operum omnium quae extant tomus primus (secundus). 2 Vols. Genevae 1614.
Oratio de Aristotele et philosophia Peripatetica … in concesso … Academiae … Heidelbergensis habita cum ex designatione … senatus philosophici 9 … adolescentibus primum philosophici honoris agradum ad 26. Octob. anni 1595 publica solennitate promotor conferret. Heidelbergae: Typis Smesmannis, 1596. [Budapest, Piarista Központi Library: B/1/9aa]
Praecognitorum logicorum tractatus tres. 1599, 1604, 1606, 1613.
Praecognitorum philosophicorum libri duo. 1607, 1608, 1612.
Rhetoricae ecclesiasticae … libri duo. 1600, 1604, 1606, 1616, 1619.
Scientiae metaphysicae compendium systema. 1609, 1611, 1615, 1619.
Systema astronomiae compendiosum. 1611, 1613, 1617.
Systema compendiosum totius mathematices. 1617, 1621, 1661.
Systema disciplinae politicae .. Synopsis disciplinae oeconomicae. 1607, 1608, 1698, 1610, 1613, 1616, 1625.
Systema ethicae. 1607, 1610, 1613, 1619, 1625.
Systema geographicum. 1611, 1612, 1616.
Systema logicae minus. 1606, 1612, 1618, 1641.
Systema logicae, compendiosa methodo adornatum. 1601, 1602, 1603, 1606, 1608, 1621.
Systema logicae, tribus libris adornatum. 1600, 1602, 1603, 1606, 1607, 1610, 1611, 1613, 1615, 1616, 1620, 1628.
Systema physicum. 1610, 1612, 1617, 1623.
Systema rhetoricae. 1608, 1612, 1618.
Systema SS Theologicae. 1602, 1603, 1605, 1607, 1610, 1611, 1615, 1644.
Systema systematum … 2 Vols. Hanau 1613.
Systematis logici pleniors, pars altera, quae est specialis. 1609, 1612, 1625.
Secondary Literature
Much of the secondary literature on Keckermann appearing prior to 1997 is cited in Freedman, Joseph S. The Career and Writings of Bartholomew Keckermann (d. 1609),Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 141, no. 3 (September 1997): 305–364. [Reprinted as article VIII in Freedman (1999)]
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Conley, Thomas M. Rhetoric in the European Tradition. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Danneberg, Lutz. Keckermann und die Hermeneutik : ein Kommentar zu den hermeneutischen Regeln in seinem Werk ‘Systema Logicae’, Borner, Ralf Georg, ed. Realität als Herausforderung : Literatur in ihren konkreten historischen Kontexten. Festschrift für Wilhelm Kühlmann zum 65. Geburtstag (Berlin 2011), pp. 161–179.
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Jenson, Derek, Bartholomew Keckermann, Hockey, Thomas, Trimble, Virginia, and Williams, Thomas R., eds. Bibliographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 615–616.
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Freedman, J.S. (2015). Keckermann, Bartholomaeus. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_272-1
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