Johann der Ältere Albinus

Albinus, Johann der Ältere (Johann der Ältere Albini) (Unter-Nessa nr. Weißenfels, 1624-97, Naumburg), for many years pastor at St Othmar's church, Naumburg, wrote hymns, and secular and religious poetry. His translations include Pia Desideria by the Jesuit Hermann Hugonis (Himmelflammende Seelenlust, 1675). A year after his revision of J. M. Meyfart's Rhetorica in 1653 he became a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft under the name der Blühende. He was also a member of Zesen's Deutschgesinnte Genossenschaft.