Valentin Schindler was a Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language

Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

. He moved by 1594 to Helmstedt

Helmstedt

Helmstedt is a city located at the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt. Helmstedt has 26,000 inhabitants . In former times the city was also called Helmstädt....

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He is known for his Lexicon Pentaglotton, which was published posthumously in 1612; this was one year before the 1613 Arabic-Latin lexicon of Franciscus Raphelengius

Franciscus Raphelengius

Frans van Ravelingen, latinized to Franciscus Raphelengius, , was a Flemish-born Dutch scholar, printer and bookseller, based in Leiden. He held the chair in Hebrew at Leiden from 1587, and also had knowledge of Arabic and Persian. He wrote an Arabic-Latin lexicon, which was published posthumously...

, therefore. An abridgement was published in 1637 by William Alabaster

William Alabaster

William Alabaster was an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. His surname is one of the many variants of "arbalester", a crossbowman....

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