Petrus Albinus

Petrus Albinus (German name: Peter von Weiße; 1543–1598) was a professor at Wittenberg in Germany and is known as the father of Saxon historiography.

Petrus Albinus was born on 18 June 1543 in Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains of central Europe.

He was married to Magdalena Hübsch, daughter of a Ratskämmerer and mining entrepreneur, who had moved to Schneeberg from Nuremberg.

In Wittenberg he took over the task of completing the history of Upper Saxony and the House of Wettin begun by Georg Fabricius.

In 1588, Albinus was called to Dresden to be appointed as secretary to Prince-Elector Christian I of Saxony, where he took oversight of all the documents of the Saxon royal house.