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John Henry Alstedius was a Protestant Divine and professor at Weissemburg, in Transylvania. He wrote about sixty works on different subjects, according to a list he gives in a preface to the third edition of his Encyclopaedia. He earned the title of " Sedulitas" conferred upon him (by anagram) in the following lines by an anonymous author: ''"Sedulus in libris scribendis atquo legandi * Alstedius nouicn Sedulitatis habet."'' It will be seen that the word Sedulitas is composed of the same letters as those which are found in the name Alstedius. == Alstedius' Encyclopedia Biblica == In 1610, he published the first edition of his Encyclopedia. In 1630, he published a second edition in a much more comprehensive form, in two large folio volumes. In the second edition, he professes to reduce the several branches of art and science then known and studied into a system. In this work, and his Encyclopedia Biblica, he tries to prove that the foundation and materials of the whole can be found in the Sacred Scriptures. The first four books contain an exposition of the various subjects to be discussed. He devotes six books to philology, ten to speculative philosophy, and four to practical matters. Then follow three on theology, jurisprudence, and medicine; three on mechanical arts, and five on history, chronologym, and miscellanies. This work exhibited a great improvement on other published works that purported to be encyclopedias in the latter half of the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries.〔 〕 ALSTEDIUS John Henry S.T.D. a divine, born in 1558 at Herborn in the County of Nassau, was professor of philosophy and theology in his native town, and subsequently at Weissemberg in Transylvania. He died at the latter place in 1638. Among his numerous works may be mentioned a treatise on the Millennium and a Biblical Encyclopedia in which he attempts to prove that the principles and materials of the arts and sciences should be sought for in the Scriptures. Alstedius was such an indefatigable writer that his was anagrammatized into ''sedulitas'' (activity) by some of the word distorters of that age. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alstedius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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