[2] In the period 1645-6 the patronage of Louis de Geer, who said the salary was too high, looked uncertain; then Kinner was held up in Schleswig-Holstein.
[10] In the end he succeeded Georg Ritschel as assistant to Comenius, but suffered in the same way, being told that finances precluded keeping him on.
[14] Right at the end of his life, in 1649, he visited England, where William Petty was set by Hartlib to translate one of his books into English.
[2][15] Paolo Rossi considers that Kinner was the first to make a detailed formulation of the idea of a constructed language.
[20] The Summary Delineation,[21] translated for Hartlib from Kinner's Diatyposis,[22] was a lacklustre piece of Comenian educational theory.