Valentin Schindler (14 February 1543 – 11 June 1604) was a

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Hebraist and professor of the

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, where he was an important teacher of the

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. He moved by 1594 to

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. 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.''Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum''
by Valentin Schindler, year 1612. It was published posthumously in 1612, one year before the 1613 Arabic-Latin lexicon of

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. An abridgement was published in 1637 by

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schindler, Valentin 1604 deaths 1543 births People from Oederan People from the Electorate of Saxony University of Wittenberg faculty German lexicographers Christian Hebraists 16th-century German people