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FRIEDRICH SYLBURG (1536-1596)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH See also:SYLBURG (1536-1596)  , See also:German classical See also:scholar, son of a See also:farmer, was See also:born at Wetter near See also:Marburg . He studied at Marburg, See also:Jena, See also:Geneva, and, lastly, See also:Paris, where his teacher was See also:Henry See also:Estienne (Stephanus), to whose See also:great See also:Greek See also:Thesaurus See also:Sylburg afterwards made important contributions . Returning to See also:Germany, he held educational posts at Neuhaus near See also:Worms and at Lich near See also:Giessen, where he edited a useful edition of the Institutions in graecam linguam (1580) of Nicolaus Clenardus (See also:Cleynaerts, 1495-1542) . In 1583 he resigned his See also:post at Lich and moved to See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Main to See also:act as corrector and editor of Greek texts for the enterprising publisher Johann Wechel . To his Frankfort See also:period belong the See also:editions of See also:Pausanias, See also:Herodotus, See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus (one of his best pieces of See also:work and highly praised by See also:Niebuhr), See also:Aristotle, the Greek and Latin See also:sources for the See also:history of the See also:Roman emperors and the Hepi auve ews of See also:Apollonius Dyscolus . In 1591 he removed to See also:Heidelberg, where he became librarian to the elector See also:palatine . The Wechel See also:series was continued by Hieronymus Commelinus of Heidelberg, for whom Sylburg edited See also:Clement of See also:Alexander, See also:Justin See also:Martyr, the Etymologicum magnum, the Scriptores de re rustica, the Greek gnomic poets, See also:Xenophon, See also:Nonnus and other See also:works . All Sylburg's editions show great See also:critical See also:power and indefatigable See also:industry . He died on the 17th of See also:February 1596, a victim of over-work . See F . Koldewey, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; K . W .

Justi, in Strieder's Hessische Gelehrten-Geschichte, xviii . (Marburg, 1819) ; C . See also:

Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883); J . E . See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class . Schol., ii . (1908), p . 270 .

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