Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/36119
- Name (English)
- Johann Heinrich Alsted
- Short name
- Johann Heinrich Alsted
- Year of birth
- 1588
- Year of death
- 1638
- Short Description
- "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." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.11.2019)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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