Georg Fabricius
Georg Fabricius (actually Goldschmidt; * April 23, 1516 in Chemnitz, † July 17, 1571 in Meissen ) was a Protestant German poet, historian, and antiquarian epigraphists. He was educated in Leipzig and worked until 1538 as a teacher in Chemnitz, Freiberg and Meissen.
Life
The son of a goldsmith goldsmith Georg († 1534) and his wife Margarethe came from none impotent family. Fabricius first attended the Thomas School in Leipzig, after the Latin school in Chemnitz in 1534 he became a pupil of John Rivius in Annaberg and became friends with Adam Siber and was a classmate of Job Magdeburg. In the winter semester 1536, he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg, moved in 1538 to the University of Leipzig and was a teacher in Chemnitz, and Freiberg. In 1539, he undertook with Wolfgang von Werther a journey through Italy and made to 1543 nationwide study of Roman antiquities.
He published the results in 1550 as Roma, where he retraced the relationship between each erwähnenswertem relic of the city and its references in ancient literature in detail. In 1544 he became a tutor in Strasbourg and at Schloss Beichlingen with his patron of Werther. In 1546 he was appointed rector of the school, founded in 1543 Prince St. Afra in Meissen, a post which he held until his death. With unusual zeal, he sat down in spite of many difficulties for encouraging his pupil, and had thus not only crucial for the Prince's School itself, but also had considerable influence on the development of the Saxon school system.
As Inspector of Henry of joke life Fabricius in 1549 was the establishment of a boys' school in the monastery to Roßleben commissioned ( convent school Roßleben ). In 1549 he published the first short selection of Roman inscriptions, which he particularly focused on legal texts - a milestone in the history of classical epigraphy: for the first time showed a humanist explicitly the value of such archaeological relics for the right story in print, and admitted tacitly the stone-carved inscriptions the same rank as manuscripts to.
In 1569 he published his annalium urbis Misnae ( " Annals of the town of Meissen " ) that establishes the Meissen city history and many processes of his time is the only source. Peter Albinus should continue this work after his death. In his religious poems, he avoided any word that might have even the lightest smack of paganism and blamed the poet for its allusions to pagan deities. In 1570 he was crowned at the Diet of Speyer of Emperor Maximilian II as poet laureate.
From his 1557 marriage to Magdalena closed († April 14, 1572 ), the daughter of the school administrator Johann Faust, were born seven sons and three daughters.
George attended the Prince's School in 1578, Jacob ( born June 12, 1560 in Meissen ) studied in Strasbourg, where he earned his master's degree in 1587 and as rector in Pegau was an income. Henry had attended the 1576-81 school Meißnerische prince, but was dismissed from her again. Also a son Christoph survived the father. Magdalena married in 1584 with the Meissner citizens Leonard Richter, daughter Anna married in November 1588 Gabriel Schaaf († 1592) from Rochlitz and after him with Johann Too bad man († 1605 ). The daughter Mary ( born March 4, 1572 Meissen, † January 24, 1609 in chub ) to marry on 14 May 1599 to the town clerk in chub master David Zeidler ( Zeithler ).
Works
- Editions of Terence ( 1548) and Virgil ( 1551 )
- Poëmatum Sacrorum libri xxv. ( 1560)
- Poetarum veterum ecclesiasticorum opera Christiana (1562)
- De Re Poetica libri septem ( 1565)
- 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 volumes duo (1609 )