Georg Fabricius (1516–July 17, 1571), Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist, was born at Chemnitz in upper Saxony on April 23 1516, and educated at Leipzig. // Events March - With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I. July - Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... Events January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion. ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Chemnitz (Sorbian/Lusatian Kamjenica, formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a city in Saxony, Germany. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... (help· info) [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the Federal State (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ...

Travelling in Italy with one of his pupils, he made an exhaustive study of the antiquities of Rome. He published the results in his Roma (1550), in which the correspondence between every discoverable relic of the old city and the references to them in ancient literature was traced in detail. In 1546 he was appointed rector of the college of Meissen. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Old town of Meißen. ...

In 1549 he edited the first short selection of Roman inscriptions specifically focusing on legal texts. This was a key moment in the history of classical epigraphy: for the first time in print a humanist explicitly demonstrated the value of such archaeological remains for the discipline of law, and implicitly accorded texts inscribed in stone as authoritative status as those recorded in manuscripts. Epigraphy (Greek, επιγραφή - written upon) is the study of inscriptions engraved into stone or other permanent materials, or cast in metal, the science of classifying them as to cultural context and date, elucidating them and assessing what conclusions can be deduced from them. ...

In his sacred poems he affected to avoid every word with the slightest savour of paganism; and he blamed the poets for their allusions to pagan divinities.

Fabricius died at Meissen on July 17 1571. Old town of Meißen. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ...

Principal works:

• editions of Terence (1548) and Virgil (1551)
• Poëmatum sacrorum libri xxv. (1560)
• Poëtarum veterum ecclesiasticorum opera Christiana (1562)
• De Re Poëtica libri septem (1565)
• Rerum Misnicarum libri septem (1569)

Posthumous: Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. ... A sculpture of Virgil, probably from the 1st century AD. For other uses, see Virgil (disambiguation). ...

• Originum I illustrissiniae stirpis Saxonicae libri sepiem (1597)
• Rerum Germaniae magnae et Saxoniae universae memorabilium mirabiliumque volumina duo (1609).

A life of Georg Fabricius was published in 1839 by D. C. W. Baumgarten-Crusius, who in 1845 also issued an edition of Fabricius's Epistolae ad W Meurerum et alios aequales, with a short sketch De Vita Ge. Fabricius de gente Fabriciorum; see also F. Wachter in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopädie. Johann Samuel Ersch (June 23, 1766 - January 16, 1828), is generally regarded as the founder of German bibliography. ... People People whose family name is or was Gruber: Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863), Austrian teacher, composer of Silent Night Johann Gottfried Gruber (1774-1851), German literary historian and critic Karl Gruber, foreign minister of Austria from 1945 to 1953 Kelly Gruber (born 1962), U.S. Major League Baseball player...

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