Justus Christoph Dithmar, 1677-1737.
German historian and Cameralist.
Justus Christoph Dithmar originated from Rothenburg (an der Fulda),
then part of the German principality of Hesse-Darmstadt. He
studied in his hometown and then at the university of Marburg and Leiden
(the latter while a tutor accompanying a young prince). Upon his
return, he settled in Frankfurt am Oder, where he became a professor of
history.
After the ascension of of Frederick William I of Prussia, Justus
Christoph Dithmar was appointed to one
of the first two chairs in economics in Germany in 1727, taking up the title of
professor of "Kameral-Okonomie und Polizeiwissenschaft" at the
University of Frankfurt-am-Oder (Simon Gasser was
appointed to the other chair at Halle). Dithmar's lectures on
cameralism were published in 1731.
It was quite successful, running through several editions. Its partition
of economic subjects under different headings was to remain customary in
German universities for decades. Dithmar also launched the Die
Oeconomische Fama in 1729, regarded as the first German economics
journal.
Summaries and comments of the various historical dissertations
supervised by Dithmar were published as a collection upon his death in
1737.
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Major Works of Justus Cristoph Dithmar
- (Editor) Maimonides's Constitutiones de Jurejurando, 1706 [bk]
- Vita Gregorii VII. Romani Pontificis.,1710 [bk]
- Historia Belli inter Imperium, et Sacerdotium sive controversiae de
investitura episcoporum inter imperatores Henricum IV. & V. & Pontifices
Romanos Victorem III, Urbanum, Paschalem, & Calixtum, horum nominum secundos,
ad famosum usque Henrici V. & Calixti istius Pactum, de quo simul disseritur,
descriptio, 1714 [bk]
- Commentatio de honoratissimo ordine militari de Balneo, 1717 [bk]
[1744 German
trans.]
- (Editor) Teschenmacher's Annales, 1721 [bk]
- (Editor) Tacitus's De moribus Germanorum 1725 [bk]
- (Editor) Abbot de Vertot of Malta's Geschichte des Ritterlichen
Johanniter-Orden, 1728 [bk]
- Einleitung in die oeconomischen, Polizei und Cameralwissenschaften,
1731 [1740
ed, 1745
ed 1769,
ed.]
- Dissertationum academicarum atque exercitationum varii ex iure
publico, naturali, et historia, desumti argumenti sylloge, 1737 [bk]
- Die Oekonomische Fama, von allerhand zu den ökonomischen, Polizei-
und Cameralwissenschaftten gehörigen Büchern, auserlesenen Materien,
nützlichen Erfindungen, Projecten, Bedenken, und andern dergleichen Sachen,
1729 (?) [1739
ed]
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Resources on Justus Cristoph Dithmar
- "Dithmar,
JC" in J. Conrad et al, (1891-94)
Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften [2nd ed, 1898-1901]
- "Dithmar,
JC", 1877, Algemeine Deutsche Biographie [NDB]
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Dithmar entry by J. Grimm, Neue Deutsche Biographie
- Dithmar
page
in NDB
- Some historical dissertations by Dithmar's students at Frankfurt-am-Oder, presided over by J.C. Dithmar
[summary & comments collected in 1737
ed]
- Marwitz's De electorum S.R.J. origine, 1711 [bk]
- Christian Buben's Vicarorium S.R.I., origine et progressu, 1712 [bk]
- L. Potter's Statu politico antediluviano, 1713 [bk],
- H. v. Schmettau's De foederibus cum diversae, atque nullius religionis populis,
1716 [bk]
- D. v. Kleist's Historia comitatus Teisterbant, 1716 [bk]
- F. Dreger's Origine juris publici germanici, 1719 [bk]
- J. Lothsack's De abdicatione regnorum aliarumque dignitatum illustrium
tam secularium quam ecclesiasticarum, 1724 [poor
copy]
- Ph. Wormlag's De coadjutoribus ordinum equestrium ecclesiasticorum,
1726 [bk]
- G.L. Nolten's De Olympiae Moratae vita, scriptis, fatis & virtutibus,
1731 [bk]
- E.S. Witte's De quatuorviratu imp. Rom. Germanici, 1735 [poor
copy]
- Wikipedia
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