Samuel von Pufendorf (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
Early Life
The family background of Samuel Pufendorf has been described as extending over four generations of Lutheran clergy, who had practiced that calling for about a century. Relatively little has been recorded, however, about Samuel’s father, except that he was a pastor of relatively modest means. When Samuel was born, as the third of four children, on January 8, 1632, the family resided in Dorfchemnitz, a village in Saxony. During the next year, they moved to Flöha, about five miles from Chemnitz. Because of the promise and academic aptitude Samuel and his elder...
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