Background
Helvig was born at Sprendlingen.
historian university professor
Helvig was born at Sprendlingen.
He is mentioned by Sir Thomas Browne, and John Locke. He remained an authority cited well into the eighteenth century. Samuel Johnson"s General Plan of Education described a course in this way:
And, for instruction in the method of his historical studies, he may consult Hearne"s Ductor Historicus, Wheare"s Lectures, Rawlinson"s Directions for the Study of History.
And, for ecclesiastical history, Cave and Dupin, Baronius and Fleury.
His Theatrum historicum et chronologicum was published in 1609. The Compendiosa Institutio Linguæ Ebraicae was a Hebrew grammar.
He became professor of Greek and Oriental languages and of theology at the University of Giessen.