Valentin Schindler (14 February 1543 – 11 June 1604See under Lexicons, which gives his birthplace as Meissen)) was a Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language.Pupils included Sibrandus Lubbertus He moved by 1594 to Helmstedt. states also that he died in Helmstedt, where he may have studied.
He is known for his dictionary "Lexicon Pentaglotton: Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum", in which the vocabulary of Hebrew and of four other Semitic languages is translated to Latin.Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum, by Valentin Schindler, year 1612. It was published posthumously in 1612, one year before the 1613 Arabic-Latin lexicon of Franciscus Raphelengius. An abridgement was published in 1637 by William Alabaster.
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