Johannes Vorst (1623 – 4 August 1676) was a Protestant theologian of Germany.
Vorst was born in
Wieselburg
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in 1623. He studied, at Wittenberg, and was appointed in 1653 rector at
Flensburg
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. In 1655 the
Rostock University
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made him a licentiate of theology, and shortly afterwards he was called to Berlin as rector of the
Joachimsthal Gymnasium
The Joachimsthal Gymnasium (German ''Joachimsthalsches'' or ''Joachimsthaler Gymnasium''), was a princely high school (German ''Fürstenschule'') for gifted boys, founded in 1607 in Joachimsthal, Brandenburg. In 1636, during the Thirty Years' War ...
. In 1660 he resigned his position, and became librarian to the elector of
Brandenburg
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. He died on 4 August 1676.
Vorst wrote, ''Dissertatio de Lingua Omnium Prima'' (Flensburg, 1675): — ''Syntagma Miscellaneorum Acadeicorium'' (Rostock, 1652): — ''De Hebraisis Novi Testantenti Comment.'' (Leyden, 1665): — ''De Notabili Correctionum Masor eticarum: Genere'' (ibid. 1678): — ''Diatrib te de Adagis X,'' T. (Berlin, 1669), etc. — See Möller, ''Cimbriat Litteorata;'' Winer'', Handb. der theol. Lit.'' 1, 30, 125, 129, 912; Jocher, ''Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lex.'' s.v.; Furst, ''Bibl. Jud.'' 3, 487; Steinschneider, ''Bibl. Handb. s.v.'' (B. P.)
1623 births
1676 deaths
German theologians
German librarians
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