Basil Faber

Basilius Faber (* 1520 in Sorau, † 1576 in Erfurt, also Basil Schmidt ) was a German pedagogue.

Life

As a relative of Michael Neander he first attended the school of his native city and Valentin Trotzendorf school in Goldberg. Easter 1538 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg, where she learned Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther know. Lange did not last his stay in Wittenberg. He joined as a private tutor to Nordhausen, where he first taught the sons of Johann Spangenberg and 1550 principal of the school was.

Since he was committed to the ideas of Gnesio-Lutherans to Matthias Flacius he fell into disputes, which led him in 1556 to Bad Tennstedt. From there he went to Magdeburg and became in 1563 Rector of the Abbess Anna II ( Countess of Stollberg - Wernigerode ) at the newly founded school in Quedlinburg. When the abbess of the teachers and clergy demanded the recognition of Melanchthon's Corpus Doctrinae, Faber refused to put his signature from his Lutheran convictions under these lapel.

This has had his dismissal in 1570, and this in he went first to Ummendorf ( flare ). In 1571 he went to Erfurt, where he found a job at the Council School, which he set up to end of his life. Faber is considered as an important educator of Saxony in the 16th century, who was standing with Georg Fabricius and Adam Siber in friendly terms. He developed mainly with the education of Saxony and issued various fonts with educational content.

Selections

• Libellus de Synonymia Terentii et copiosa phrasium et locutionum commutatione, Leipzig 1553, Vol 2 1556
• Libellus de ratione genuina dicendi et scribendi, monstrata e Terentio et Cicerone, Leipzig 1554
• Elenchus legum et disciplinae scholasticae, 1571
• Libellus de disciplina scholastica, 1572
• Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae, 1571, 1587, 1623, 1625, 1691, 1749