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FABRICIUS, JOHANN ALBERT (1668-1736)

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FABRICIUS, JOHANN See also:ALBERT (1668-1736) , See also:German classical See also:scholar and bibliographer, was See also:born at See also:Leipzig on the 11th of See also:November 1668. His See also:father, See also:Werner Fabricius, director of See also:music in the See also:church of St See also:Paul at Leipzig, was the author of several See also:works, the most important being Deliciae Harmonicae (1656). The son received his See also:early See also:education from his father, who on his deathbed recommended him to the care of the theologian Valentin See also:Alberti. He studied under J. G. Herrichen, and after-wards at Quedlinburg under See also:Samuel Schmid. It was in Schmid's library, as he afterwards said, that he found the two books, F. See also:Barth's Adversaria and D. G. See also:Morhof's Polyhistor Literarius, which suggested to him the See also:idea of his Biblioihecae, the works on which his See also:great reputation was founded. Having returned to Leipzig in 1686, he published anonymously (two years later) his first See also:work, Scriptorum receniiorum decas, an attack on ten writers of the See also:day. His Decas Decadum, sive plagiariorum et pseudonymorum ceniuria (1689) is the only one of his works to which he signs the name See also:Faber.

He then applied himself to the study of See also:

medicine, which, however, he relinquished for thatof See also:theology; and having gone to See also:Hamburg in 1693, he proposed to travel abroad, when the unexpected tidings that the expense of his education had absorbed his whole patrimony, and even See also:left him in See also:debt to his trustee, forced him to abandon his project. He therefore remained at Hamburg in the capacity of librarian to J. F. See also:Mayer. In 1696 he accompanied his See also:patron to See also:Sweden; and on his return to Hamburg, not See also:long afterwards, he became a See also:candidate for the See also:chair of See also:logic and See also:philosophy. The suffrages being equally divided between Fabricius and See also:Sebastian Edzardus, one of his opponents, the See also:appointment was decided by, See also:lot in favour of Edzardus; but in 1699 Fabricius succeeded See also:Vincent Placcius in the chair of See also:rhetoric and See also:ethics, a See also:post which he held till his See also:death, refusing invitations to Greifswald, See also:Kiel, See also:Giessen and See also:Wittenberg. He died at Hamburg on the 3oth of See also:April 1736. Fabricius is credited with 128 books, but very many of them were only books which he had edited. One of the most famed and laborious of these is the Bibliotheca See also:Latina (1697, republished in an improved and amended See also:form by J. A. See also:Ernesti, 1773). The divisions of the compilation are—the writers to the See also:age of Tiberius; thence to that of the Antonines; and thirdly, to the decay of the See also:language; a See also:fourth gives fragments from old authors, and chapters on early See also:Christian literature.

A supplementary work was Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae Aetatis (1734–1736; supplementary See also:

volume by C. Schottgen, 1746; ed. Mansi, 1754). His chef-d'ceuvre, however, is the Bibliotheca Graeca (1705-1728, revised and continued by G. C. Harles, 179o-1812), a work which has justly been denominated See also:maximus antiquae eruditionis See also:thesaurus. Its divisions are marked off by See also:Homer, See also:Plato, See also:Christ, See also:Constantine, and the See also:capture of See also:Constantinople in 1453, while a See also:sixth See also:section is devoted to See also:canon See also:law, See also:jurisprudence and medicine. Of his remaining works we may mention:—Bibliotheca Antiquaria, an See also:account of the writers whose works illustrated See also:Hebrew, See also:Greek, See also:Roman and Christian antiquities (1713); Centifolium Lulheranum, a Lutheran bibliography (1728); Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica (1718). His Codex Apocryphus (1703) is still considered indispensable as an authority on apocryphal Christian literature. The details of the See also:life of Fabricius are to be found in De Vita et Scriptis J. A. Fabricii Commentarius, by his son-in-law, H.

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Reimarus, the well-known editor of Dio See also:Cassius, published at Hamburg, 1737 ; see also C. F. See also:Bahr in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopeidie, and J. E. See also:Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. iii. (1908).

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