Valentin Schindler

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Valentin Schindler (d. 1604^[1]) was a Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language^[2]. He moved by 1594 to Helmstedt.^[3]

He is known for his Lexicon Pentaglotton^[4], which was published posthumously in 1612; this was one year before the 1613 Arabic-Latin lexicon of Franciscus Raphelengius, therefore. An abridgement was published in 1637 by William Alabaster.

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1. ^ See [1] under Lexicons, which gives his birthplace as Meissen)
2. ^ Pupils included Sibrandus Lubbertus[2]
3. ^ [3] states also that he died in Helmstedt, where he may have studied.
4. ^ Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum; see title page.