John Herbinius (1632–1676) was a
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writer and
naturalist especially known for examining and explaining the principles of
Cataracts in rivers.
Biography
He was born at
Bitschen in the
Duchy of Brieg in 1632. He studied at the
University of Wittemberg, before being appointed as a
Rector
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of the school in Bitschen and later in the city of
Wohlau.
In 1663, he went to Bojanowo in Poland to found an evangelical school of the
Protestant Churches of the
Augsburg Confession
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(in Poland). He solicited on their behalf pecuniary assistance from the other
Lutheran Churches
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; hence, he travelled through
Germany, the
Dutch Republic,
Switzerland
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,
France,
Denmark,
Sweden
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, and
Ukraine. This employment of travel through several countries gave him an opportunity to examine
Natural history of the countries he passed through; furthermore, he was employed specifically, to examine and explain the principles of Cataracts and
Waterfalls; accordingly, he published ''De Admirandis Mundi Cataractis,'', ''Kiovia subterranea,'' and ''Terrse motus et quietis exarnen''.
He was engaged as a
Chaplain
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at
Stockholm
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by
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ambassador to Poland, and later been appointed as a minister of the Lutheran Church at
Wilna and
Graudenz in Prussia. He authored several publications and died at an age of 44 in 1676.
Bibliography
* ''Terrse motus et quietis exarnen'', 1655.
* ''Disputatio de Fœminarum illustrium Eruditione'', 1657.
* ''Calendæ festivæ Anni 1667'', 1667
* ''Tragicocomcedia, et Ludi innocui de Juljano Imperatore Apostata'', 1668.
* ''Admiranda Michaelis Koributhi in Regem Poloniæ Electio'', 1669
* ''De statu Ecclesiarum Augustanae confessionis in Polonia'', 1670.
* ''Religiosæ Kijovienses cryptæ, sive Kijovia subterranea'', 1675.
* ''De Admirandis Mundi Cataractis'', 1678.
* ''Disputatio de Paradiso.''
Notes
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1632 births
1676 deaths
German male writers
17th-century German Lutheran clergy
Polish Lutheran clergy
People from Kluczbork County