Christian Wolff, ennobled as Christian von Wolff in 1745, lived from January 24, 1679 to April 9, 1754 and was a German philosopher characterized as one of the most eminent German philosophers between Leibniz and Kant. His life's work spanned almost every scholarly subject of his time, unfolded according to a demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method that some regard as the peak of Enlightenment rationality in Germany; through works such as his Jus Naturae and Jus Gentium he became a founding figure of the German natural-law and law-of-nations tradition, alongside being a founding father of economics and public administration as academic disciplines, giving practical advice to people in government and stressing the professional nature of university education. He wrote in German as his primary language of scholarly instruction and research, translating his works into Latin for his transnational European audience.
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