FABRICIUS, Vincent, born at Hamburg on the 13th of September 1612, studied at Leyden, and there took his degrees in medicine in 1634. He had already made him-
self known by his talent for Latin poetry; and two years before this, had published a collection of verses, at the solicitation of his friend and patron Daniel Heinsius. He then applied himself to the study of law, in which his progress was not less rapid than it had been in the other sciences, and in due time he became a learned civilian. The bishop of Lubec conferred on him the title of counsellor, with suitable appointments; but he did not hold this situation for any length of time; and having established himself with his family at Dantzic, he was soon afterwards named syndic, and then burgomaster, of that city. The knowledge which he had acquired of the interests of the republic, and the talent for public speaking which he displayed upon occasions of importance, caused him to be thirteen times returned by the senate as their deputy to the Polish diet. He died at Warsaw, during one of the sessions of that body, on the 11th September 1667. The first edition of the poems of Fabricius appeared at Leyden in 1632; and the second, corrected and augmented by the author, in 1638. But his son, Frederic Fabricius, published a third at Leipsic, 1685, in 8vo, containing several pieces which had been omitted in the preceding editions, besides the Harangues pronounced by him in the Polish diet, a discourse De Obsidione et Liberatione urbis Leidensis, delivered at Leyden in 1632, and the medical theses maintained by him in the same city.