Erasmus Finx

Erasmus Finx (16 November 1627 – 20 December 1694), aka Erasmus Francisci, was a German polymath, author, and writer of Christian hymns.

Finx was born in Lübeck, the son of a lawyer and received higher education at Lüneburg and Stettin.

He studied law and was travelling through Italy, France and the Netherlands afterwards.

[1] He wrote a large number of books under various pseudonyms (Der Erzählende, Freundlieb Ehrenreich von Kaufleben, Theophil Anti-Scepticus, Der Unpartheyische, Gottlieb Unverrucht, Theophilus Urbinus, and Gottlieb Warmund), and he edited Johann Weikhard von Valvasor's The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola.

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