David Caspari was a German

Germany

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 Lutheran

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 theologian. He was the father of Georg Caspari

Georg Caspari

Georg Caspari was a Baltic German academic.Caspari was born in Riga as the son of David Caspari, rector of Riga Cathedral. He studied at the University of Rostock, where he published De Descensu Christi ad Inferos in 1704 and De Testamentis Divinis in 1705. Caspari also published some of his...

.

Born in Königsberg

Königsberg

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, Prussia, Caspari studied at the Albertina

University of Königsberg

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 and the universities of Jena, Wittenberg

University of Halle-Wittenberg

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, Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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, Altdorf

University of Altdorf

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, Strassburg

University of Strasbourg

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, and Helmstedt

University of Helmstedt

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. He became sub-inspector at the Albertina in 1676. Two years later he was appointed rector of Riga Cathedral's school. Caspari died in Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

as the school's superintendent.

Works

• De Vita Dei, Qualis ea sit ex Mente Graecorum et Potissimum Aristotelis (Jena, 1673)
• De Quaestione an Virtus Cadat in Deum (Königsberg, 1677)
• De Futuri Theologi Studiis Philologicis et Philosophicis (edited by Georg Caspari, 1705)
• Breviarium Theologiae Moralis (edited by Georg Caspari, 1712)