Christian Reineccius (22 January 1668 – 18 October 1752, aged 84) was an 18th-century

Saxon The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...

theologian. He was born in Großmühlingen in the

Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst Anhalt-Zerbst was a Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, principality of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the House of Ascania, with its residence at Zerbst in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It emerged as a subdivision of the Principality of Anhalt from 1 ...

. As rector of the gymnasium of Weissenfels, his writings served the study of

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. He translated the Old and the

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

into four languages (Leipzig, 1713–48).

Sources

Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis Chassang (dir.), "Chrétien Reineccius" in ''Dictionnaire universel d’histoire et de géographie'', (1878)

External links

Christian Reineccius
on data.bnf.fr
Reineccius, Christian
on Deutsche Biographie

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reineccius, Christian 1668 births 1752 deaths People from Salzlandkreis People from the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst German Lutheran theologians Christian Hebraists University of Helmstedt alumni