Georg Fabricius

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Georg Fabricius

Georg Fabricius (actually Goldschmidt ; born April 23, 1516 in Chemnitz , † July 17, 1571 in Meißen ) was a Protestant German poet , historian , epigraphist and antiquarian. He was educated in Leipzig and worked as a teacher in Chemnitz, Freiberg and Meißen until 1538 .

Life

The son of the goldsmith Georg Goldschmied († 1534) and his wife Magarethe did not come from a poor family. Fabricius first attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig , then the Latin School in Chemnitz and in 1534 he became a student of Johannes Rivius in Annaberg . He made friends with Adam Siber and was a classmate of Job Magdeburg . In the winter semester of 1536 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , changed to the University of Leipzig in 1538 and was then a teacher in Chemnitz and Freiberg. In 1539 he went on a trip through Italy with Wolfgang von Werthern and made extensive studies of Roman antiquities until 1543 .

He published the result as Roma in 1550 , tracing in detail the connection between every relic of the city worth mentioning and its references in ancient literature. In 1544 he became private tutor in Strasbourg and at Beichlingen Castle with his patrons von Werthern . In 1546 he was appointed rector of the Princely School St. Afra in Meissen, founded in 1543 , an office he held until his death. Despite many difficulties, he campaigned with unusual zeal for the promotion of his students and thus not only had a formative effect on the Princely School itself, but also had a considerable influence on the development of the Saxon school system.

As inspector of Heinrich von Witzleben , Fabricius was commissioned in 1549 to set up a boys' school in the monastery in Roßleben ( Klosterschule Roßleben ). In 1549 he published the first short selection of Roman inscriptions, concentrating particularly on legal texts - a milestone in the history of classical epigraphy : for the first time, a humanist explicitly showed the value of such archaeological relics for legal history in print, and thereby tacitly admitted to the inscriptions carved in stone the same rank as manuscripts.

In 1569 his Annalium urbis Misnae ("Annals of the City of Meißen") was published, which founded the Meißen city historiography and is the only source for many events of its time. Petrus Albinus was to continue this work after his death. In his spiritual poems he avoided any word that might have the slightest connotation of paganism and blamed the poets for their allusions to pagan deities. In 1570 he was at the Diet of Speyer by Emperor Maximilian II. The poet laureate crowned.

His marriage to Magdalena († April 14, 1572), the daughter of the school administrator Johann Faust, resulted in seven sons and three daughters.

Georg attended the Princely School in 1578, Jacob (born June 12, 1560 in Meißen) studied in Strasbourg, where he obtained his master's degree in 1587 and found an income as rector in Pegau. Heinrich had attended the Meissen Princely School from 1576–81, but was dismissed from it. A son Christoph also survived his father. Magdalena married Leonhard Richter, a citizen of Meissen in 1584, and their daughter Anna married Gabriel Schaaf († 1592) from Rochlitz in November 1588 and then with Johann Schademann († 1605). The daughter Maria (* March 4, 1572 in Meißen; † January 24, 1609 in Döbeln) married on May 14, 1599 with the town clerk in Döbeln Magister David Zeidler (Zeithler).

Works

  • Editions of Terence (1548) and Virgil (1551)
  • De historia & meditatione mortis Christi, quae in noctis dieiq [ue] tempus distributa est, Hymni XXIIII , Leipzig: Valtentin Papa 1552
  • Poëmatum sacrorum libri xxv. (1560)
  • Poëtarum veterum ecclesiasticorum opera Christiana (1562)
  • De Re Poëtica libri septem (1565)
  • Chemnicensis In Paenas Tres, Prudentii, Seduli, Fortunati (1568)
  • Rerum Misnicarum libri septem (1569)
  • Annalium urbis Misnae (1569)

Posthumously

  • Originum illustrissimae stirpis Saxonicae libri septem (1597)
  • Rerum Germaniae magnae et Saxoniae universae memorabilium mirabiliumque volumina duo (1609)

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SURNAME Fabricius, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldsmith, Georg (real name); Confluentinus, Gerardus Faustus; Faustus, Gerardus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant German poet, historian and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1516
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1571
Place of death Meissen