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Johann Heinrich Alsted

1588 - 1638

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Heinrich Alsted is the 877th most popular philosopher (up from 880th in 2019), the 3,080th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,015th in 2019) and the 111th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 877 out of 1,267. Before him are Raymond Williams, William of Conches, Ian Hacking, Arethas of Caesarea, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Arthur Oncken Lovejoy. After him are Hermippus of Smyrna, Hugo Kołłątaj, Alexander Zinoviev, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Paul de Man, and Alain Finkielkraut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 14. Before him are Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Robert Filmer, Pierre Séguier, Jan Janssonius, and Johann von Aldringen. After him are Margherita Aldobrandini, Ole Worm, John Winthrop, Claudius Salmasius, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, and Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen. Among people deceased in 1638, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 21. Before him are Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, Hercules Seghers, Barbara Longhi, Paulus Moreelse, Georg Flegel, and Jacques Blanchard. After him are Joachim Wtewael, Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Gabriello Chiabrera, and John Wilbye.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 3,082 out of 7,253. Before him are Richard Dehmel (1863), Friedrich Sixt von Armin (1851), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Adolf Erman (1854), and John I, Duke of Saxony (1249). After him are Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), Helmut Jahn (1940), Klaus Tennstedt (1926), Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (1859), Siegfried Bing (1838), and Georg Konrad Morgen (1909).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Johann Heinrich Alsted ranks 111. Before him are Franz Xaver von Baader (1765), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Hans Robert Jauss (1921), Hans Albert (1921), August Böckh (1785), and Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873). After him are Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Rudolf Stammler (1856), Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Valentin Weigel (1533), and Heinrich Khunrath (1560).

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