FABRICIUS, GEORGE, a Latin poet and historian, was born at Kemnitz, in Germany, on the 24th April 1516. He began his studies in his native place, and completed them at Freyberg and at Leipsic, where he was preceptor to Wolfgang, and also to Philip and Antony Werter. He travelled into Italy with the elder of his pupils, and on his return to Germany in 1553, was appointed director of the college of Meissen, where he died on the 13th July 1571. In his poetical compositions, which obtained for their author considerable distinction, he affected not to employ any word which had the slightest flavour of paganism; and he blamed those poets who had in their works introduced the pagan divinities. All that he wrote on the history of his country is, in the judgment of Nicéron, estimable for research and accuracy; and Lenglet Dufresnoy pronounces a similar opinion. The following list includes the principal works which he published, either as author or as editor: 1. Terentii Africi Comœdiae sex cum castigatōe duplici Joannis Rivii et G. Fabricii, Strasburg, 1648, in 8vo; 2. Roma, sive Liber utilissimus de veteris Romae situ, regionibus, viis, templis, aliisque ædificiis, Bâle, 1550, in 8vo; 3. Virgilii Opera cum commentariis Sericii et T. C. Donati, Bâle, 1551, in fol.; 4. Virgilii Opera a Fabricio castigata, Leipsic, 1551, 1591, in 8vo; 5. Poematum Sacrorum libri quinddecim, Bâle, 1560, in 16to; 6. Poematum veterum ecclesiasticorum opera Christiana et operum reliquæ ac fragmenta, 1562, in 4to; 7. De Re Poetica libri septem, 1566, in 8vo; 8. Rerum Miscellaneorum libri septem, 1569, in 4to; 9. Originum illustrissimæ stirpis Saxonicæ
Fabricius. libri septem, 1597, in fol.; 10. Rerum Germaniae magnae et Saxoniae universae memorabilium volumina duo, Leipsic, 1609, in fol.