Jeremias Felbinger (27 April 1616 – c. 1690) was a German Socinian writer, teacher, and lexicographer. Felbinger was born in

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. He taught in

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Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

, and

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

, and lived at a "Strasswitz" near

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

. He corresponded with

John Biddle (Unitarian) John Biddle or Bidle (14 January 1615 – 22 September 1662) was an influential English nontrinitarian, and Unitarian. He is often called "the Father of English Unitarianism". Christopher Hill, ''Milton and the English Revolution'', p. 290. Lif ...

e.g. 1654. Like many Socinian exiles in Amsterdam he appears to have died there in poverty.

Works

Felbinger's most significant works are perhaps his translation of the

Remonstrant The Remonstrants (or the Remonstrant Brotherhood) is a Protestant movement that had split from the Dutch Reformed Church in the early 17th century. The early Remonstrants supported Jacobus Arminius, and after his death, continued to maintain his ...

edition of the Greek New Testament into German, his Greek-German Lexicon of the New Testament, and his "Christian Handbook". A comprehensive list of works is given by

Christopher Sand Christopher Sandius Jr. (Königsberg, October 12, 1644 – Amsterdam, November 30, 1680) was an Arian writer and publisher of Socinian works without himself being a Socinian. His name was Latinized as Christophorus Sandius, though his German name ...

in ''Bibliotheca Anti-Trinitariorum''. * 1648 ''Nomenclatura Latino-Germana'' * 1646 ''Rhetorica'' * 1646 ''Politicae Christianae'' Dutch 1660 * 1653 ''Demonstrationes Christianae'' * 1651 ''Christliches Handbüchlein''. Dutch: ''Christelyke Handboeksken'' 1675. English translation ''Christian Handbook'' 1975.J. W. Miller Christian Handbook By J. Felbinger bound with Rights and Ordinances By A. Mack Sr. Dayton, OH: J. W. Miller, 1975. 1st edition, privately printed. * 1657 Greek-German Lexicon of the New Testament. * 1660 German New Testament, translation from the Greek edition of "Stephani Curcellaei" 1655 i.e. of

Étienne de Courcelles Étienne de Courcelles (Latin: ''Stephanus Curcellaeus''; Geneva 2 May 1586 – Amsterdam 20 May 1659) was an Arminian Greek scholar and translator. He studied from 1609 in Zurich, and after that he was French Protestant minister of Amiens, transl ...

(Curcellaeus) (1586–1659) the French translator of

Grotius Hugo Grotius (; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Huig de Groot () and Hugo de Groot (), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, poet and playwright. A teenage intellectual prodigy, he was born in Delft ...

. * 1675 ''Doctrina Syllogistica''

References

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