Johann Albert Fabricius
Johann Albert Fabricius (* November 11, 1668 in Leipzig, † April 30, 1736 in Hamburg ) was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.
Life
A first training was with his father Werner Fabricius Fabricius, director of music at the university church in Leipzig, who entrusted him on his deathbed the care of theologian Valentin Alberti.
He studied with JG Herrichen, then at Samuel Schmid in Quedlinburg, in the library, he found the two books, namely Caspar von Barth Adversaria and Daniel Georg Morhofs polymath Literarius, two works in which the entire formation was summarized from antiquity and the stimulated him to his Bibliothecae, the work to which established his reputation.
1686 he returned to Leipzig, where he was after a few weeks of studying bachelor. Two years later he became Master of Arts and anonymously published his first work, Scriptorum recentiorum Decas, an attack on ten writers of his time. His Decas Decadum, immersive plagiariorum et pseudonymorum centuria (1689 ) is the only one of his works that he has signed with the name Faber. Then he turned to the study of medicine, which he then abandoned in favor of theology.
1693 he moved to Hamburg, where he was planning a trip abroad, as the unexpected news that the cost of his education had eaten up the entire paternal inheritance and even indebted him by his trustee, forced him to abandon the project. In 1694 he was famulus and librarian of Johann Friedrich Mayer, senior pastor at the Church of St. Jacobi in Hamburg and professor in Kiel. In 1696 he accompanied his patron to Sweden, and was traded shortly after his return as a candidate for the Chair of Logic and Philosophy at the Academic Gymnasium. The vote was between Fabricius and Sebastian Edzardus, one of his opponents, drawn from what the appointment by lot Edzardus devolved.
In 1699 he received his doctorate at the University of Kiel to the doctor of theology. Fabricius followed Placcius Vincent (1642-1699) to the chair of rhetoric and ethics at the Hamburg Academic Gymnasium, where he remained until his death, in which he rejected calls to Greifswald, Kiel, casting, and Wittenberg. From 1708 to 1711, he also assumed the rectorship of the Hamburg Latin School Johanneum. One of his students at the Academic Gymnasium and later colleague and son-in was Hermann Samuel Reimarus.
Works
Fabricius be attributed to 128 books, but he is with many of them only publisher. One of the most famous of which is Bibliotheca Latina (1697, an improved and corrected form in 1773 by Johann August Ernesti reissued ). His Compilations concern: the authors from the time of Emperor Tiberius, from the time of the Antonines, as well as the period of decline of the language. Another area are the fragments of ancient authors and chapters on early Christian literature. (Ed. Mansi, 1754, reprint 1734 to 1736 1858f; ; supplementary volume of Johann Christian Schöttgen, 1746 ) As a continuation appeared related to the Middle Ages, Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae Aetatis. Fabricius was also - not only by his translation of the physico by William Derham 1728 - much to the popularization of this at the time, popular attempts of theological proofs of God in Germany.
But his main work remains the Bibliotheca Graeca 14bändige ( 1705-1728, revised and continued by Gottlieb Christoph Harless, 1790-1812 ), which was rightly called maximus Antiquae eruditionis thesaurus. Your sections are marked by Homer, Plato, Jesus, Constantine the Great and the conquest of Constantinople in 1453; A sixth section is devoted to the canon law, jurisprudence and medicine.
Of the other works are worth mentioning:
- Bibliotheca antiquaria (1713 ), describe a report of the authors, the Hebrew, Greek, Roman and Christian antiquities.
- Centifolium Lutheranum, a Lutheran Bibliography (1728).
- Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica (1718 ).
- Codex Apocryphus Novi Testamenti, Collectus, Castigatus, Testimoniisque Censuris et Animadversionibus Illustratus. Hamburg in 1703, which was long regarded as a necessary authority to apocryphal Christian literature.
- Codex Pseudepigraphus Veteris Testamenti, Collectus, Castigatus, Testimoniisque Censuris et Animadversionibus illustratus, Hamburg and Leipzig, 1713, vol 2 Hamburg in 1723, this work Fabricius coined the term " Pseudepigrapha ".
Honors
After the Fabricius Fabricius street was named in Hamburg's Bramfeld.