Baruch Spinoza
Johannes Colerus' Life of Spinoza
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Johannes Colerus' Life of Spinoza
Korte, dog waaragtige levens-beschryving van Benedictus de Spinosa
The first documented biography, written by a pastor hostile to his ideas who lived in the same house in The Hague and interviewed his landlords, the Van der Spycks. It is the main source on his habits, his poverty and his last day, and refutes the legends of a deathbed repentance.
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Authorship note
Work by the Lutheran pastor Johannes Colerus (Köhler), not by Spinoza; French translation in 1706 and English in 1706.
Editions and translations
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English
Baruch Spinoza
The Life of Benedict de Spinosa
The Conscious LibraryThe Life of Benedict de Spinosa
Londres, 1706
Français
Baruch Spinoza
La Vie de B. de Spinosa (en Œuvres de Spinoza, t. II, ed. Saisset)
The Conscious LibraryLa Vie de B. de Spinosa (en Œuvres de Spinoza, t. II, ed. Saisset)
Charpentier, París, 1861
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Other works by Baruch Spinoza
- Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order · 1677
- Theological-Political Treatise · 1670
- Political Treatise · 1677
- Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect · 1677
- Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being · 1660
- Principles of Cartesian Philosophy · 1663
- Metaphysical Thoughts · 1663
- Compendium of Hebrew Grammar · 1677
- Letters · 1677
- Posthumous Works · 1677
- Apology for leaving the synagogue (lost) · 1656
- Treatise on the Rainbow (lost) · 1676
- Dutch translation of the Old Testament (lost) · 1677
- Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- Calculation of Chances (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- Treatise of the Three Impostors (spurious) · 1719
- Spinoza: A Life (biography by Steven Nadler) · 1999
- The Collected Works of Spinoza (ed. Edwin Curley) · 1985
- Spinoza: Complete Works (trans. Samuel Shirley) · 2002
- Spinoza Opera (ed. Carl Gebhardt) · 1925
- Opere (ed. Filippo Mignini) · 2007
Sources
- Colerus, Johannes. Korte, dog waaragtige levens-beschryving van Benedictus de Spinosa. Ámsterdam, 1705; trad. francesa «La Vie de B. de Spinosa» (1706), en Œuvres de Spinoza, trad. Émile Saisset, t. II, París, Charpentier, 1861 (Wikisource).
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