Johann Heinrich Alsted
Johann Heinrich Alsted | |
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1610 drawing of Alsted | |
| Born | March 1588 |
| Died | 9 November 1638 (aged 50) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Baroque philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy
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| Notable students | János Apáczai Csere |
| Main interests | Pedagogy, encyclopaedia writing |
| Notable works | Encyclopaedia Cursus Philosophici |
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.