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See also: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
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In 1538 he entered the university .of See also:Wittenberg, studying as pauper gratis underMelanchthon
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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)
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From this last See also:post he was removed in See also:December 1570 as a Crypto-Calvinist
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In 1571 he was appointed to the Raths-gymnasium at See also:Erfurt, not as rector, but as director (Vorsteher)
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In this situation he remained till his See also:death in 1575 or 1576
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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
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He was a contributor to the first four of the Magdeburg Centuries
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He is best known by his See also:Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae (1571; last edition, improved by J
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H
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Leich, 1749, See also:folio, 2 vols.); this was followed by his Libellus de disciplina scholastics (1572)
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See Wagenmann and G.See also: (A . |
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