Johann Heinrich Alsted

German theologist (1558-1638)

1588 – 1638 ·

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Born: 1588, Ballersbach
Died: 9 November 1638, Alba Iulia
Citizenship: Germany
Worked in: Transylvania
Field of work: philosophy, theology, science, encyclopedia
Religion: Protestantism
described by source: Riemann's Music Dictionary, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
family name: Alsted
given name: Johann, Heinrich, John, Henry, János, Henrik
instance of: human
languages spoken, written or signed: Latin
name in native language: Johann Heinrich Alsted
sex or gender: male

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Johann Heinrich Alsted (March 1588 – November 9, 1638), "the true parent of all the Encyclopædias", was a German-born Transylvanian Saxon Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology and millenarianism. His contemporaries noted that an anagram of Alstedius was sedulitas, meaning "hard work" in Latin.

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János Apáczai Csere

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Encyclopaedia Cursus Philosophici

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Johannes Henricus Alstedius, philosophicae sacrae ac profanae doctor aetatis LII

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