Georg Fabricius
Georg Fabricius (23 April 1516 – 17 July 1571), born Georg Goldschmidt, was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist who wrote in Latin during the German Renaissance. Life. Fabricius was born in Chemnitz in Saxony and educated at the University of Leipzig. 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 Saint Afra in Meissen. In 1549 Fabricius edited the first short selection of Roman inscriptions focusing specifically 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 a status as those recorded in manuscripts. 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. He encouraged music at  his school, although he was not himself a musician. Some of his writings were set to music by composers such as Martin Agricola, Johann Walter, Mattheus Le Maistre, Antonio Scandello, and . Fabricius died at Meissen. Works. Principal works: Famous Quote. From: "In Praise of Georgius Agricola" "Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old." Posthumous: 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".