FABRICIUS, GEORGE, a Latin poet and historian, was born at Chemnitz in Germany, on the 24th April 1516. He began his studies in his native place, and completed them at Freyberg and at Leipzig, 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 sacred poems, which obtained for their author considerable distinction, he affected not to employ any word which had the slightest savour of paganism; and he blamed those poets who had in their works introduced the pagan divinities. The following list includes the principal works which he published, either as author or as editor: 1. Terentii Africi Comædiae sex cum castigatione duplici Joannis Rivii et G. Fabricii, Strasburg, 1548, in 8vo; 2. Roma, sive Liber utilisissimus de veteris Romæ situ, regionibus, viis, templis, aliisque adificiis, Bâle, 1550, in 8vo; 3. Virgilii Opera cum commentariis Servii et T. C. Donati, Bâle, 1551, in fol.; 4. Virgilii Opera a Fabricio castigata, Leipzig, 1551, 1591, in 8vo; 5. Poëmatum Sacrorum libri quindecim, Bâle, 1560, in 16mo; 6. Poëmatum veterum ecclesiasticorum opera Christiana et operum reliquiae ac fragmenta, 1562, in 4to; 7. De Re Poëtica libri septem, 1566, in 8vo; 8. Rerum Misnicarum libri septem, 1569, in 4to; 9. Originum illustrissima stirpis Saxonicae libri septem, 1597, in fol.; 10. Rerum Germaniae magnæ et Saxoniae universæ memorabilium volumina duo, Leipzig, 1609, in fol.