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BASIL FABER (1520-c. 1576)

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

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