# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-heinrich-alsted
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:38:03.497Z

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name: "Johann Heinrich Alsted"
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description: "Johann Heinrich Alsted, \"the true parent of all the Encyclopædias\", was a German-born Transylvanian Saxon Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology and millenarianism. His contemporaries noted that an anagram of Alstedius was sedulitas, meaning \"hard work\" in Latin."
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birthDate: "1588"
deathDate: "1638-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump