Christoph Helvig
Christoph Helvig (Sprendlingen, 1581 - 1617) was a German chronologist and historian, theologian and linguist.
In chronology he generally was a follower of Joseph Scaliger. He is mentioned by Sir Thomas Browne, and John Locke. He remained an authority cited well into the eighteenth century; Samuel Johnson's General Plan of Education described a course in this way:
His Theatrum historicum et chronologicum was published in 1609.
The Compendiosa Institutio Linguæ Ebraicae was a Hebrew grammar. He became professor of Greek and Oriental languages and of theology at the University of Giessen.
Notes
- Helwig, Hellwig, Christopher Helwich, Heiwich, Christophorus Helvicus, Helwigius.
- Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors VI.i: The Age of the World
- [1]
- http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11768/11768-8.txt
- English translation as The Historical and Chronological Theatre of Christopher Helvicus, Distributed into Equal Intervals of Tens, Fifties, and Hundreds: With an Assignation of Empires, Kingdoms, Governments, 1687.
External links
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Helwig (Helwich, Helvicus), Christoph. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Bd. 2, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8, Sp. 708. (German)
- (German) [2]
- (Latin) Funeral oration
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