Johannes Althusius
Johannes Althusius | |
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| Surname also: Althus, Althusen or Althaus | |
Johannes Althusius, engraving by Jean-Jacques Boissard. | |
| Born | 1563 Diedenshausen, Sayn-Wittgenstein, Holy Roman Empire |
| Died | August 12, 1638 Emden, East Frisia, Holy Roman Empire |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Basel |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Renaissance / Early Modern |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Calvinism, Ramism |
| Main interests | Political philosophy, Jurisprudence, Theology |
| Notable ideas | Modern Federalism, Subsidiarity, popular Sovereignty, Consociatio Symbiotica |
Johannes Althusius (1563 – August 12, 1638) was a German–Dutch jurist and Calvinist political philosopher.
He is best known for his 1603 work Politica Methodice Digesta, Atque Exemplis Sacris et Profanis Illustrata which revised editions were published in 1610 and 1614. The ideas expressed therein relate to the early development of federalism in the 16th and 17th centuries and the construction of subsidiarity.