Valentin Schindler
Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language
About Valentin Schindler
Lived 1543 – 1604 (aged 61). Valentin Schindler was a German lexicographer, linguist, university teacher, writer, philologist and orientalist.
Valentin Schindler (14 February 1543 – 11 June 1604 ) was a Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language. He moved by 1594 to Helmstedt.
He is known for his dictionary "Lexicon Pentaglotton: Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum", in which the vocabulary of Hebrew and of four other Semitic languages is translated to Latin. It was published posthumously in 1612, one year before the 1613 Arabic-Latin lexicon of Franciscus Raphelengius. An abridgement was published in 1637 by William Alabaster.
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Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language
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Valentin Schindler was born on 14 February 1543 in Oederan.
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Valentin Schindler died on 11 June 1604 in Helmstedt.
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Valentin Schindler was a lexicographer, linguist, university teacher, writer, philologist and orientalist.
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Valentin Schindler was German.
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