Johann Heinrich Alsted, a German Protestant divine and author, born in 1588, died in 1638. He was for some time professor of philosophy and divinity at Herborn in Nassau, and afterward at Carlsburg in Transylvania. Among his writings are an Encyclopaedia, in two large folios (Herborn, 1630), the most complete work of the kind that had then appeared; Thesaurus Chronologiae; and Tri-umphus Bibliorum Sacrorum, intended to prove that the principles of all arts and sciences are contained in the Scriptures. His Tractatus de Mills Annis (1627) maintains that the millennium was to commence in 1694.