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Eilhard LubinusAlso Eilhardus or Eilert, Lubin or Lübben. (23 March 1565 – 2 June 1621) was a German Lutheran theologian and philosopher, also known as a social critic, classical scholar, linguist, mathematician and cartographer. He was an influence on Comenius and Leibniz.
In his Phosphorus, sive de prima causa et natura mali tractatus (Rostock 1596), he taught (following a neo-Platonist position) that there are two primordial principles, Being and Nothing. This position was considered heretical, and he was attacked for it by Albert Grauer and others.
He published a trilingual edition of the New Testament in 1617. With it as a Preface was a Discourse against the contemporary methods of teaching Latin; it advocated the use of pictures and techniques treating it as a living language. Comenius later acknowledged the influence of Lubinus on his own educational thinking.Daniel Murphy, Comenius (1995), p. 197. The Preface was published in English translation in 1654 by Samuel Hartlib as The True and Readie Way to Learne the Latin Tongue, together with an essay by Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet, and an extract from an essay by Michel de Montaigne.Charles Webster (editor), Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning (1970), p. 192.
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