Onthe Use of Natural Law writings in Germany.^® The feud in Lund has also been seen as a parallel to the Cartesian controversies in Uppsalad^ It was certainly a question of modern versus orthodox philosophy. In contrast to the feuds at Heidelberg, Pufendorf won a total victory at Lund. In the background lay his good connections with the ruling groups of Sweden. The Chancellor of the Realm, De la Cardie, had personally been involved to get Pufendorf to Lund. The men of the new era, such as the learned career man, later president of the Royal Commission of Law, Erik Lindschöld, had good relations with Pufendorf, and had met him in Heidelberg.^® One result of the Danish invasion of Scania in 1676 was that the university at Lund closed down and was to remain so for six years. Pufendorf had no means of support but through the help of Lindschöld he was appointed Royal State Historiographer in May 1677, in the midst of the crisis.^® After more than a decade in this office and twenty years in the service of Sweden, Samuel von Pufendorf moved to Berlin. He had received an appointment there as official Brandenburg historian. This was not well looked upon in Stockholmand attempts were made to get him to stay. Of his more prominent works, he had written during his time in Stockholm the history of Gustavus Adolphus and Queen Christina and he had completed a manuscript on Charles X Gustavus. This was not printed until after Pufendorf’s death and after he had been in the service of Brandenburg for a number of years. Pufendorf wrote history in different genres. But it has been said that in at least one sense he wrote everything in a similar way. He concentrated upon foreign relations and did not write about the inner conditions of states. However, while his predecessors had normally been content to write about wars, Pufendorf was very interested in diplomatic negotiations. He even looked upon them as one of his most important topics.'® The text is often written as discussions, pro et contra^ certain political actions.In his text he tried to inquire into the politics of all states involved.-- He did this primarily through seeking rational motivations behind political actions. Bo Lindberg, Naturrätten i Uppsala 1655—1720, Uppsala 1976. pp 37—47, 50 ff. Jerker Rosén, Lunds Universitets historia 1. 1668—1709. Lund 1968. p 208 ff. Enoch Ingers, Erik Lindschöld I, Lund 1908. p 50. Malmströmp 20 f. H. R. von Srbik, Geist und Geschichtc vom deutschen Humanismus bis zur Gegenwart I, Miinchen 1950. p 81. Moritz Ritter, Die Entwicklung der Geschichtswissenschaft an den fiihrenden Werken betrachtet, Miinchen 1919. J. G. Droysen, Zur Kritik Pufendorfs. In J. G. Droysen, Abhandlungen zur neueren Geschichte, Leipzig 1876. p 318. Droysen p 368. “ Ritter p 201. 57
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