The education of Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) at the Berlin Académie militaire des nobles (1770–1773)

TY - JOUR

T1 - The education of Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) at the Berlin Académie militaire des nobles (1770–1773)

AU - Poulsen, Frank Ejby

PY - 2018/7/4

Y1 - 2018/7/4

N2 - This article examines the education that Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) received during his stay at the Berlin Académie des nobles (1770–1773). Cloots wrote at several occasions about his education there, notably naming Sulzer as a philosophical influence 10 years later. Examining the pupils’ life at the Académie, Sulzer’s teaching, and the detailed study schedule, this paper wonders what elements may have influenced Cloots. It is likely that Sulzer taught the philosophy of Wolff, but it is difficult to ascertain his influence on Cloots. There are similarities between Wolff’s civitas maxima and Cloots’s ‘universal republic’ that justify further studies.

AB - This article examines the education that Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) received during his stay at the Berlin Académie des nobles (1770–1773). Cloots wrote at several occasions about his education there, notably naming Sulzer as a philosophical influence 10 years later. Examining the pupils’ life at the Académie, Sulzer’s teaching, and the detailed study schedule, this paper wonders what elements may have influenced Cloots. It is likely that Sulzer taught the philosophy of Wolff, but it is difficult to ascertain his influence on Cloots. There are similarities between Wolff’s civitas maxima and Cloots’s ‘universal republic’ that justify further studies.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Anacharsis Cloots

KW - Prussia

KW - eudcation

KW - 18th century

KW - Johann Georg Sulzer

KW - Christian Wolff

U2 - 10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615

DO - 10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0191-6599

VL - 44

SP - 559

EP - 574

JO - History of European Ideas

JF - History of European Ideas

IS - 5

ER -