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Johannes Heinrich Ursinus (also known as Johannes Henricus Ursinus, Iohannes Henricus Ursinus, Johann Heinrich Ursin and even John Henry Ursinus) (26 January 1608 in Speyer – 14 May 1667[1] in Regensburg) was a learned German author, scholar, Lutheran theologian, humanist and dean of Regensburg.
Ursinus studied the Oriental roots of western philosophy and was the author of a scholastic encyclopaedia. He was a Rector in Mainz, preached in Weingarten, Speier and Regensburg, and had been a student in Straßburg.[2]
His Arboretum Biblicum, which appeared in 1663, was the first attempt of note to create a concordance of botanical references in the Bible, and predated the Hierozoicon, a zoological compendium of biblical animals, of Samuel Bochart.[3] In all Ursinus published 137 works in 153 publications in 3 languages.
The plant genus Ursinia was named after Ursinus by the German botanist, Joseph Gaertner.