CLAUBERG, JOHANN (1622-1665), German philoso pher, was born at Solingen, in Westphalia, and studied the Car tesian philosophy under John Raey at Leyden. He became professor of philosophy and theology at Herborn and subse quently at Duisburg, where he died. Clauberg was one of the earliest teachers of the new doctrines in Germany and an exact and methodical commentator on his master's writings. His theory of the connection between the soul and the body is in some respects analogous to that of Malebranche ; but he is not there fore to be regarded as a true forerunner of Occasionalism, as he uses "Occasion" for the stimulus which directly produces a mental phenomenon, without postulating the intervention of God (H. Muller, 1. Clauberg and seine Stellung im Cartesianismus) . His view of the relation of God to his creatures is held to fore- I shadow the pantheism of Spinoza. All creatures exist only through the continuous creative energy of the Divine Being, and are no more independent of his will than are our thoughts inde pendent of us. Clauberg's chief works are : De conjunctione animae et corporis humani; Exercitationes centum de cognitione Dei et nostri; Logica vetus et nova; Initiatio Philosophi, seu Dubitatio Cartcsiana; a commentary on Descartes' Meditations; and Ars etymologica Teutonum.
A collected ed. of his philosophical works was pub. at Amsterdam (1691), with life by H. C. Hennin ; see also E. Zeller, Geschichte der deutschen Philosophie seit Leibnitz