Guilielmus Xylander

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Guilielmus (Guilhelmus) Xylander (also Wilhelmus Xylander ; graced from Wilhelm Holzman ; born December 26, 1532 in Augsburg ; † February 10, 1576 in Heidelberg ) was a German scholar and humanist .

Wilhelm Xylander, copper engraving from the middle of the 17th century.
Plutarchi Chaeronensis, 1592

He was born in Augsburg, studied in Tübingen and Basel and in 1558 received the professorship of the Greek language in Heidelberg as the successor to Micyllus . In 1562 he extended this professorship to the chair of logic ( publicus organi Aristotelici interpres ). From 1564 to 1565 he was rector of Heidelberg University .

Life

Xylander was the author and editor of many important works and translations from ancient times. He translated Cassius Dio (Basel, 1558), Plutarch (Basel, 1560-1570), the geography of Strabo (ibid., 1571) and several mathematical writings from Greek into Latin . Xylander also edited the geographical lexicon of Stephen of Byzantium (ibid, 1568). The journeys of Pausanias were completed by Friedrich Sylburg after his death and appeared in 1583.

Further works are the meditations by Marcus Aurelius (1558, the editio princeps is based on a lost Heidelberg manuscript; the second edition from 1568 also contains works by Antoninus Liberalis , Phlegon von Tralleis , an unknown Apollonius and Antigonos von Karystos - all Paradoxographoi ) and the Chronicle of Georgios Kedrenos (1566). He also translated the first six books of Euclid with annotations into German as well as the Arithmetica of Diophant of Alexandria and the "De quattuor mathematicis scientiis" by Michael Psellos into Latin. Of his editions on the Greek prose writers, that of the philosophical writings of Marcus Aurelius (Zurich, 1559) is important.

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Xylander, Guilielmus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holtzman, Wilhelm; Xylander, Wilhelm; Xylander, Wilhelmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1532
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1576
Place of death Heidelberg