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Protestantism
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q454743 · wikidata
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Johann Heinrich Alsted
1588-01-01 – 1638-11-09
Life & Legacy
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.
Occupation & Career
theologian, musicologist, writer, music theorist, university teacher, philosopher, teacher, pedagogue
Faith & Community
Protestantism
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Protestantism
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