John Herbinius

John Herbinius (also: Johann Herbin Jan Herbinius, Joannes Herbinius; * 1632 in Pitschen, † February 14, 1676 or 1679 Graudenz ) was a German Protestant theologian and educator.

Life

The son of a school headmaster studied since December 10, 1650 at the University of Wittenberg and acquired on April 26, 1652 the degree of Master of Arts. After completing his studies, he returned home and received his father's place. 1661, he worked in the same capacity in Wohlau, went in 1663 after Bojanova in Poland to establish a Protestant provincial school. To finance the project, he traveled to Wittenberg and Holland.

But returned to Bojanova he came with his evangelical co-religionists in dispute and went as Rector of the German school in Stockholm. From there he moved in 1674 to Vilna in Lithuania, where he served as pastor. Because of sectarian clashes, he was relieved of his accession to the 1675 and then lived in Königsberg ( Prussia) and Gdansk. He became again a pastorate in Gaudenzdorfer, where he also died.

Herbinius made ​​primarily to the Polish Protestant Church earned and was known by many scriptures. So he translated Martin Luther's Small Catechism, the Augsburg Confession and several hymns in the Polish language.

Selections

  • Eloquentia Academica, politica, domestica
  • Oratio ad episcopos Daniae per ecclesiis Poloniae
  • Carmina lyrica
  • Hosanna! durchleuchtigen the Prince and Lord Mr. Christian Eberhard princes and Erbprintzen in Ostfrießland, ... as the same ... from Holland in His princely. Residentz Aurich, 28 Novembr. the 1668 year ... come home ... Stockholm 1668
  • Dissertationes De admirable andis mundi cataractis supra & subterraneis, earumque principio, elementorum circulatione, ubi eadem occasione aestus maris reflui vera causa ac genunina asseritur, nec non terrestrial ac primigenio Paradiso locus situsque verus restituitur in Palestine, ... Amsterdam 1678
  • Famosae, De solis vel Telluris Motu, controversiae exam Theologico - Philosophicum Ad Sanctam S. Normam, Institutum. 1655
  • Religiosae Kiioviensium crypts in quibus labyrintum et in eo corpora Heroum atge divorum roxolanitum ex nomine ad oculum demonstrat. Jena 1675
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