The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 14: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in ... the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time - Hardcover

Chalmers, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 0266424651 ISBN 13: 9780266424659

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 14: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time

Faber (basil), an eminent Lutheran divine, was born in 1520, at Soraw in Lusatia, on the confines Of Silesia. He was bred to letters, and successively became a teacher in the schools at Nordhausen, Tennstadt, and Quedliu burg, and lastly, rector of the Augustinian college of Er furt. He Was a zealous Lutheran, and translated into German, the remarks of Luther on Genesis. He published also observations oii Cicero, and other learned works, and was concerned in the Magdeburgh Centuries; but the chief foundation of his fame was his Thesaurus Erudi tionis Scholasticae, an undertaking which required the labour of many able men to render it complete. It was first published in 1571. After his death it was augmented and improved by Buchner, Thomasins, the great Christo pher Cellarius, and the Graev'ius s, father and son. The edition published at the Hague in 1735, in2 vols. Folio, was long esteemed the best, biit that by John Henry Leich, published at Francfort in 1749, 2 vols. Fol. Is thought supeflon'

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0266424651
• ISBN 13: 9780266424659
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• Anzahl der Seiten: 532
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