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

Life

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 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.

Works