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GEORG See also:FABRICIUS (1516-1571) , See also:German poet, historian and archaeologist, was See also:born at See also:Chemnitz in upper See also:Saxony on the 23rd of See also:April 1516, and educated at See also:Leipzig . Travelling in See also:Italy with one of his pupils, he made an exhaustive study of the antiquities of See also:Rome . He published the results in his See also:Roma (1550), in which the See also:correspondence between every discoverable relic of the old See also:city and the references to them in See also:ancient literature was traced in detail . In 1546 he was appointed See also:rector of the See also:college of See also:Meissen, where he died on the 17th of See also:July 1571 . 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 . See also:Principal See also:works: See also:editions of See also:Terence (1548) and See also:Virgil (1551); Poematum sacrorum libri See also:xxv . (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) . A See also:life of Georg See also:Fabricius was published in 1839 by D . C . W . See also:Baumgarten-See also:Crusius, who in 1845 also issued an edition of Fabricius's Epistolae ad W . Meurerum et atios aequales, with a See also:short See also:sketch De Vita Ge . Fabricii et de genie Fabriciorum ; see also F . Wachter in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopddie . |
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