Life
He was born in Mittenaar. He was educated at Herborn Academy, studying under Johannes Piscator. From 1606 he was at the University of Marburg, taught by Rudolf Goclenius, Gregorius Schönfeld and Raphaël Egli. The following year he went to Basel, where his teachers were Leonhardt Zubler for mathematics, Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf for theology, and Johann Buxtorf. From about 1608 he taught at Herborn, where he became professor of philosophy and theology.
He was later in exile from the Thirty Years' War in Transylvania, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1629 Alsted left war-torn Germany for Gyulafehérvár (now Alba Iulia in Romania, called at that time Weissenburg in German). He was to found a Calvinist Academy: the context was that the Transylvanian royal family had just returned from Unitarianism to Calvinism. Alsted and Johannes Bisterfeld were German professors brought in improve standards. Among the students there was János Apáczai Csere. He died in Gyulafehérvár.
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