Melchior Goldast

Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld (Goldastus) (6 January 1576 or 1578, Switzerland – Gießen, Germany, 1635) was a Swiss jurist and an industrious though uncritical collector of documents relating to the medieval history and constitution of Germany and was the first to coin the term medieval (medium aevium). He was a Calvinist writer of note. Provided by Wikipedia