"Christoph Scheibler (born 6 December 1589 in Armsfeld, died 10 November 1653 in Dortmund) was a German philosopher, classical philologist, Lutheran theologian and metaphysician. He was ...
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Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Giessen from 1610. He was appointed as Superintendent, i.e. Bishop, in 1625.
His descendants became a prominent family of both academics and industrialists in western Germany near the current Belgian border, and several descendants were ennobled." - (en.wikipedia.org 13.10.2020)