Henrik Florinus (1633–1705), Finnish priest, writer and translator.
He relates how and when he became a Christian, and in his letter to Florinus stated that he saw and heard Polycarp personally in lower Asia.
Florinus may have been the son of an Anglo-Saxon man and Jewish woman, a convert to Christianity, who had settled at Matsch (Mazia) in the Vinschgau Valley on their way back from a pilgrimage to Rome.
Florinus became inspired to collect proverbs in 1695 after getting the collections of Gabriel Tammelin in his possession who died that same year.