Friedrich Samuel Bock (

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20 May 1716 – Königsberg 30 September 1785) was a German philosopher and

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.This is a draft of an article in The Dictionary of Eighteenth Century German Philosophers
3 vols., edited by Manfred Kuehn and Heiner Klemme (London/New York: Continuum, 2010) In 1753 he was appointed first professor of Greek, then theology at the University of Königsberg, though he resigned both positions in 1770 due to the university's failure to pay a salary, plus the onerous duty that the professor of Greek had to lecture on the whole of the New Testament annually. He retained his previous position as university librarian, in all for twenty-seven years. It was in this position that Bock is associated with

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who was his assistant. At this period the library, or ''Schloßbibliothek'', was situated in two rooms in the castle.

Works

* ''Historia Antitrinitarianorum'' 1776. This enlarged work is the sum of a lifetime of interest in the theology of the Socinians. Bock's doctoral dissertation and also inaugural address for his theology position concerned the Polish Brethren. These were initially collected together and published as a history of

Antitrinitarians Nontrinitarianism is a form of Christianity that rejects the orthodox Christian theology of the Trinity—the belief that God in Christianity, God is three distinct Hypostasis (philosophy and religion), hypostases or persons who are coeternal, ...

in 1754.

References

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