Johann Philipp Abelin

Johann Philipp Abelin (* probably in Strasbourg, † September 12, 1634; actually Abele, also romanized Abeleus, Philipp Arlanibäus ) was a German historian and translator. The ADB, based on assumption that Abelin have also published under the pseudonym of Johann Ludwig Gottfried, applies meanwhile refuted.

Work

Abelin mainly worked as a translator for the publishing house of Lucas Jennisius, Matthäus Merian, and Friedrich Hulsius in Frankfurt am Main. His works consisted mostly of summaries of historical records or were pure translations.

Works

In his Archontologia Cosmicum translated and revised Abelin Pierre d' Avity's moons. Also Abelin collections of Swedish history were known. The Arma Suecica (1631-1634) describes, divided into 12 sections, the history of the wars of Gustavus Adolphus and is complemented by an inventory Sueciae, which appeared in 1632. Both works are summaries of timely records and letters that deal without further historical comments with the war.

Among his most famous works are the first two volumes of the Theatrum Europaeum, a series of chronicles the most important events in the European world, dating back to the year 1619. Abelin wrote the work more occasions, renewed the facts and published it again. He also wrote a translation into Dutch. He himself was shown to be responsible for the first two volumes of the series, other chroniclers led the Theatrum Europaeum continued and published so to 1738 a total of 21 issues. Some volumes contained copper engraving illustrations by Matthäus Merian ( 1593-1650 ).