Herbinius, Johannes

Herbinius, Johannes (Kapusta, Jan), b ca 1627–33 in Byczyna (Pietschen), Silesia, d March 1679 in Grudziądz, Poland. Polish-German scholar. A Lutheran minister, theologian, and pedagogue, he lived in Sweden, Denmark, Poland, and Lithuania. In 1674 he obtained materials on the Kyivan Cave Monastery from its archimandrite, Innokentii Gizel, and used them to write Religiosae Kijovienses Cryptae, s. Kijovia subterranea (1675).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]