page_title: Erasmus Finx
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Erasmus Finx / Life
context_page_description: Erasmus Finx, aka Erasmus Francisci, was a German Polymath, author and writer of Christian hymns.
context_section_description: 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. As of 1657, he worked as a reader at Endter publishing at Nuremberg, where he also published some of his books.  He died in Nuremberg. 
  He wrote a large number of books, e.g. under the following pseudonyms: Der Erzählende, Freundlieb Ehrenreich von Kaufleben, Theophil Anti-Scepticus. Der Unpartheyische, Gottlieb Unverrucht, Theophilus Urbinus, Gottlieb Warmund and edited Johann Weikhard von Valvasor The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola.
caption: Title Ost und West Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust und Staats-Garten
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