|
See also:SYLBURG, See also:FRIEDRICH (1536-1596) , See also:German classical See also:scholar, son of a See also:farmer, was See also:born at Wetter near See also:Marburg. He studied at Marburg, See also:Jena, See also:Geneva, and, lastly, See also:Paris, where his teacher was See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Estienne (Stephanus), to whose See also:great See also:Greek See also:Thesaurus Sylburg afterwards made important contributions. Returning to See also:Germany, he held educational posts at Neuhaus near See also:Worms and at Lich near See also:Giessen, where he edited a
useful edition of the Institutions in graecam linguam (1580) of Nicolaus Clenardus (See also:Cleynaerts, 1495-1542). In 1583 he resigned his See also:post at Lich and moved to See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Main to See also:act as corrector and editor of Greek texts for the enterprising publisher Johann Wechel. To his Frankfort See also:period belong the See also:editions of See also:Pausanias, See also:Herodotus, See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus (one of his best pieces of See also:work and highly praised by See also:Niebuhr), See also:Aristotle, the Greek and Latin See also:sources for the See also:history of the See also:Roman emperors and the Hepi auve ews of See also:Apollonius Dyscolus. In 1591 he removed to See also:Heidelberg, where he became librarian to the elector See also:palatine. The Wechel See also:series was continued by Hieronymus Commelinus of Heidelberg, for whom Sylburg edited See also:Clement of See also:Alexander, See also:Justin See also:Martyr, the Etymologicum magnum, the Scriptores de re rustica, the Greek gnomic poets, See also:Xenophon, See also:Nonnus and other See also:works. All Sylburg's editions show great See also:critical See also:power and indefatigable See also:industry. He died on the 17th of See also:February 1596, a victim of over-work.
See F. Koldewey, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; K. W. Justi, in Strieder's Hessische Gelehrten-Geschichte, xviii. (Marburg, 1819) ; C. See also:Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883); J. E. See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol., ii. (1908), p. 270.
End of Article: SYLBURG, FRIEDRICH (1536-1596)
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!