Johannes Heinrich Ursinus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johannes Heinrich Ursinus

German author, scholar, Lutheran theologian and humanist

Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1608

Place of Birth: Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 14-May-1667

Profession: entomologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Johannes Heinrich Ursinus (also known as Johannes Henricus Ursinus, Iohannes Henricus Ursinus, Johann Heinrich Ursin and even John Henry Ursinus) (26 January 1608 in Speyer – 14 May 1667 in Regensburg) was a learned German author, scholar, Lutheran theologian, humanist and dean of Regensburg.
Ursinus studied the Oriental roots of western philosophy and was the author of a scholastic encyclopaedia.
He was a Rector in Mainz, preached in Weingarten, Speier and Regensburg, and had been a student in Straßburg. His Arboretum Biblicum, which appeared in 1663, was the first attempt of note to create a concordance of botanical references in the Bible, and predated the Hierozoicon, a zoological compendium of biblical animals, of Samuel Bochart.
In all Ursinus published 137 works in 153 publications in 3 languages. The plant genus Ursinia was named after Ursinus by the German botanist, Joseph Gaertner.