Johann Heinrich Alsted
German Calvinist academic, 1588–1638 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Johann Heinrich Alsted (March 1588 – November 9, 1638), "the true parent of all the Encyclopædias",[1] 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.[2]
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Johann Heinrich Alsted | |
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Born | March 1588 |
Died | 9 November 1638 |
Notable work | Encyclopaedia Cursus Philosophici |
Era | Baroque philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy
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Notable students | János Apáczai Csere |
Main interests | Pedagogy, encyclopaedia writing |
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