Valentin Schindler

Valentin Schindler (14 February 1543 – 11 June 1604^[1]) was a Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language.^[2] He moved by 1594 to Helmstedt.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.

Notes

^ See [1] under Lexicons, which gives his birthplace as Meissen)
^ Pupils included Sibrandus Lubbertus [2]
^ [3] states also that he died in Helmstedt, where he may have studied.
^ Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum, by Valentin Schindler, year 1612.

[1] See [1] under Lexicons, which gives his birthplace as Meissen)

[2] Pupils included Sibrandus Lubbertus [2]

[3] [3] states also that he died in Helmstedt, where he may have studied.

[4] Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum, by Valentin Schindler, year 1612.

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