Eilhard Lubinus (23 March 1565 – 2 June 1621) was a German Lutheran theologian and philosopher, also known as a classical scholar, mathematician and cartographer. He was an influence on

Comenius John Amos Comenius (; cs, Jan Amos Komenský; pl, Jan Amos Komeński; german: Johann Amos Comenius; Latinized: ''Ioannes Amos Comenius''; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considere ...

Life

His actual name is Eilhard Lübben. Born in

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in 1565, Lubinus was son of a pastor in the

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. He studied at

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and other universities, and in 1595 became Professor of Poetry in the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock (german: link=no, Universität Rostock) is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continen ...

. In 1605 he transferred to the Chair of Theology there. Phillip II of Pomerania in 1610 commissioned him to make a map of

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. He died in 1621 in

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Lubinus Duchy of Pomerania Map 1618 monocromatic

Works

Lubinus published works including editions of the ''Epistolae'' of Apollonius, the '' De Vanitate Mundi'' of Bernard, the ''

Greek Anthology The ''Greek Anthology'' ( la, Anthologia Graeca) is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature. Most of the material of the ''Greek Anthology'' comes from two manuscripts, the ''Pa ...

'' in a literal Latin version, and the ''Epistolae'' of

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. In his ''Phosphorus, sive de prima causa et natura mali tractatus'' (Rostock 1596), he taught (following a

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position) that there are two primordial principles, Being and Nothing. This position was considered

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, and he was attacked for it by Albert Grauer and others. He published a trilingual edition of the ''

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'' in 1617. With it as a Preface was a Discourse against the contemporary methods of teaching Latin; it advocated the use of pictures and techniques treating it as a living language. Comenius later acknowledged the influence of Lubinus on his own educational thinking. The Preface was published in English translation in 1654 by

Samuel Hartlib Samuel Hartlib or Hartlieb (c. 1600 – 10 March 1662)
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as ''The True and Readie Way to Learne the Latin Tongue'', together with an essay by

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, and an extract from an essay by

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.Charles Webster (editor), ''Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning'' (1970), p. 192.

References

In ''Bibliotheca Britannica''

* :de:s: ADB:Lubinus, Eilhard

Notes

External links

In Pierre Bayle’s ''Dictionnaire''

Lubinus family

Map in portions
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