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BASIL FABER (1520-c. 1576)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 111 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BASIL See also:FABER (1520-c. 1576)  , Lutheran schoolmaster and theologian, was See also:born at See also:Sorau, in See also:lower See also:Lusatia, in 1520 . In 1538 he entered the university .of See also:Wittenberg, studying as pauper gratis underMelanchthon . Choosing the schoolmaster's profession, he became successively See also:rector of the See also:schools at See also:Nordhausen, Tennstadt (1555), See also:Magdeburg (1557) and Quedlinburg (1560) . From this last See also:post he was removed in See also:December 1570 as a Crypto-Calvinist . In 1571 he was appointed to the Raths-gymnasium at See also:Erfurt, not as rector, but as director (Vorsteher) . In this situation he remained till his See also:death in 1575 or 1576 . His See also:translation of the first twenty-five chapters of See also:Luther's commentary on See also:Genesis was published in 1557; in other ways he promoted the spread of Lutheran views . He was a contributor to the first four of the Magdeburg Centuries . He is best known by his See also:Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae (1571; last edition, improved by J . H . Leich, 1749, See also:folio, 2 vols.); this was followed by his Libellus de disciplina scholastics (1572) . See Wagenmann and G.See also:Muller in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1898) .

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