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'''Clemens Timpler''' (1563 &ndash; 28 February 1624) was a German [[Biography:Philosopher|philosopher]], [[Physicist|physicist]] and theologian.
Along with Jakob Degen (1511–1587), he is considered an important Protestant metaphysician, establishing the Protestant Reformed [[Philosophy:Second scholasticism|''Neuscholastik'']].

==Life==
Timpler was born in Stolpen.  In 1600 he joined Bartholomew Keckermann studying philosophy at Leipzig. In April 1595, he became professor of physics at Gymnasium Arnoldinum, a high school in Steinfurt. He taught there until his death.

==Publications==
* ''Metaphysicae systema methodicum'' Steinfurt 1604
* ''Physicae Seu Philosophiae Naturalis Systema Methodicum'', Hannover 1605
* ''Clementis Timpleri Technologia seu tractatus generalis de natura et differentiis artium liberalium; die gloria Dei als schlechthin letztes Ziel aller techne in Theorem 9.
* ''Exercitationum Philosophicarum Sectiones X : In Quibus Quaestiones Selectae Et Utiles, Praesertim Metaphysicae, ultra quadringentas, accurate & dilucide discutiuntur & enodantur'' Hannover: Antonius 1618
* ''Theoria Physica, De Sensu In Genere : Certis Thesibus comprehensa.'' Steinfurt: Caesar 1616

==Further reading==
* Karl Eschweiler: ''Die Philosophie der spanischen Spätscholastik auf den deutschen Universitäten des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts.'', Münster: Aschendorff 1928 (Spanische Forschungen der Görres-Gesellschaft I), S. 251-325 ([http://www.fgbueno.es/ger/ke1928f.htm Digitalisat])
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''European Academic Philosophy in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries the Life, Significance and Philosophy of Clemens Timpler (1563/4-1624)'', Hildesheim 1988 {{ISBN|3-487-09012-0}}, {{ISBN|978-3-487-09012-2}}
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''Die Karriere und Bedeutung von Clemens Timpler (1563/64-1624)'' In: ''Porträts aus vier Jahrhunderten Arnoldinum, Steinfurt'', Greven 1988, 69-77
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''Aristotelianism and Humanism in Late Reformation German Philosophy: The Case of Clemens Timpler, 1563/64-1624''. In ''The Harvest of German Humanism. Papers in Honor of Lewis W. Spitz''. Edited by Fleischer Manfred. St. Louis: Concordia Press 1992, 213-232 
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''The Soul ("anima") according to Clemens Timpler (1563/64-1624) and Some of his Central European Contemporaries'', Wiesbaden 2004, 791-830
* Joseph S.Freedman: ''Necessity, Contingency, Impossibility, Possibility, and Modal Enunciations within the Writings of Clemens Timpler (1563/4-1624)''. In Spätrenaissance-Philosophie in Deutschland 1570-1650. Entwürfe zwischen Humanismus und Konfessionalisierung, okkulten Traditionen und Schulmetaphysik.  Edited by Mulsow Martin. Berlin: de Gruyter 2009, 293-318
* Albert Röser: ''Clemens Timpler und die Metaphysik.'' In: (ibid) ''Porträts aus vier Jahrhunderten Arnoldinum, Steinfurt'' Steinfurt 1988, 76-83
* Max Wundt: ''Der Deutsche Schulmetaphysik des 17 Jahrhunderts'', Tübingen, 1939, 75 ss.

==External links==
*[http://www.ontology.co/history.htm History of Ontology from Suarez to Kant]
*[https://archive.is/20121205010945/http://www.ontology.co/history-continental-authors.htm The Birth of Ontology. A selection of Ontologists from 1560 to 1770]
*[http://www.ontology.co/biblio/joseph-freedman.htm Bibliography of Joseph S. Freedman on Philosophy in Central Europe (1500-1700)] contains abstract of the publications on Timpler


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