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GEORG See also: German poet, historian and archaeologist, was See also: born at Chemnitz in upper See also: Saxony on the 23rd of See also: April 1516, and educated at See also: Leipzig
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Travelling in See also: Italy with one of his pupils, he made an exhaustive study of the antiquities of See also: Rome
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He published the results in his See also: Roma (1550), in which the See also: correspondence between every discoverable relic of the old city and the references to them in See also: ancient literature was traced in detail
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In 1546 he was appointed rector of the See also: college of See also: Meissen, where he died on the 17th of See also: July 1571
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In his sacred poems he affected to avoid every word with the slightest savour of paganism; and he blamed the poets for their allusions to See also: pagan divinities
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See also: Principal See also: works: See also: editions of See also: Terence (1548) and Virgil (1551); Poematum sacrorum libri See also: xxv
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(1560) ; Poetarum velerum ecdesiaslicorum See also: opera Christiana (1562); De Re Poetica libri septem (1565); Rerum Misnicarum libri septem (1569); (See also: posthumous) Originum illustrissimae stirpis Saxonicae libri septem (1597) ; Rerum Germaniae magnae et Saxoniae universae memorabilium mirabiliumgi a volumina duo (1609)
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A See also: life of Georg See also: Fabricius was published in 1839 by D
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Baumgarten-Crusius, who in 1845 also issued an edition of Fabricius's Epistolae ad W
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Meurerum et atios aequales, with a See also: short sketch De Vita Ge
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Fabricii et de genie Fabriciorum ; see also F . Wachter in See also: Ersch and See also: Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopddie
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