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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, Bernstadt auf dem Eigen,

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. In 2021 it surpa ...

, and

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

, and lived at a "Strasswitz" near

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. 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. Li ...

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 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 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, transla ...

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

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

. * 1675 ''Doctrina Syllogistica''

References

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