Name

Georg Calixt

Original name

Main activity

Theologian

Secondary activity

Title

Doctor

Name variations

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Education place

Helmstedt

Education institution

University of Helmstedt

Activity place

Helmstedt

Activity institution

University of Helmstedt

Activity start date

1614

Activity end date

1656

Place of birth

Medelby (Schleswig)

Date of birth

1586

Place of death

Helmstedt

Date of death

1656

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Gerog Calixt was a prominent Lutheran theologian of first half of the seventeenth centuty. He was an important representative of the Irenicist school within Lutheranism. Among his students was the Altdorf orientalist Theodoricus Hackspan, who had studied the Qur'an intensively. Calixt himself was not an orientalist but did own a complete Qur'an ms. preserved today at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov