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Lusatia, and died June 12, 1757. He is noted espe- cially for his bitter opposition to the modern Moravi- ans. He wrote Das tnllarvte Jlerrnhiith (Herrnhut unmasked, Wittenberg, 1743, Ito, and 1749, 8vo) ; Eni- dcckte herrnhuthche Sutirercy (174!t, 8vo), in which he seeks to prove that Zinzendorf and the modern Mora- vians are not the successors of the Bohemian Breth- ren.— Bio(j. Universelle, xiv, 02.
Fabricius, Franciscus, a Dutch theologian, was born at Amsterdam April 10, 1G63. He studied theol- ogy and the Oriental languages at the University of Lcyden, at which he afterwards filled the chairs of theolog}- and rhetoric. He died July 27, 1738. His chief works are, 1. Christus unicuni ac perpetuum fun- (lamentum Eccleske (Lej'den, 1717, 4to) : — 2. Be Stcer- dotio Christi ju.rta Ordinem Melchizedeci (ib. 1720, 4to) : — 3. Christologia Noachica et Ahrahamica (ib. 1733, 4to) : — 4. De Fide Christiana Patriai'charum et Prophe- tarum (ib. 4to) : — 5. Orator Steer (ib. 1733. 4to), con- taining lectures on preaching. — Migne, Diet, de Biog- rapK'p Chretienne, ii, 13G; Biog. UniverseUe, xiv, 61.
Fabricius, Georgius, a German philologist, was born at Chemnitz April 24, 1516, and after a liberal course of education travelled to ItaXj, and spent a long time at Kome, the fruit of which was his Roma, anti- quitatis Mimumenta, etc. (Basel, 1550 and 1557, 8vo). He was endowed with some poetical talent, and wrote numerous sacred poems in Latin verse — Poematum Sacrorum lib. xv (Basel, 1560, 16mo). From 1553 to his death (Jul}"' 13, 1571) he was director of the college at Meissen. His most important work is Poetarum veterurn ecclesiasficorum opera Christiana, thesaurus ca- tholicte et orthodoxai ecckslw (Basel, 1564, 4to), a very valuable collection of early Christian hymns and poe- try.— Niceron, Menioires, xxxii, 31; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gencrale, xvi, 958.
Fabricius, Johannes, a German theologian, was born at Altorf Feb. 11, 1644. After a very diligent course of study in theolo-cy and philosophj^ at the Uni- versity of Altorf, he journeved through Germany and Ital}^ from 1670 to 1677. On his return he becauT^ professor of theology at Altorf, where he remained twenty years. In 1697 he became professor at Helm- stiidt, where he died, .Jan. 29, 1729. He bore a high reputation for scholarship, and for his minute acquaint- ance with the Eomish controvers}'. His principal publications are, Dissertatio de Alturihus (Helmstiidt, 1698, 4to) : — Amxnitates theologicm varii et sdecti argu- vienti (Helmst. 1699, 4to) : — Ilistoria Bihlioth. Fahrtci- awe (WolfenbiJttel, 1717-24, 6 vols. 4to) : — Consid^ra- tio vuriarum controversianmi ctiiti Atheis, Gentilibus . . . Pontificik et R'formatis (1704; also 1715, confined to the controversies inter Evangelicos et CaihoUcos). He inherited the ironical tendencies of Calixtus (q. v.), and sought to show that the points of diflference be- tween Romanism and Protestantism are not so great as thej'*are generally held to be ; he even went so far as to believe that a Protestant might lawfully go over to the Itomish Cluirch. — Hoefer, Xatii'. Biog. Gin. xvi, 962 ; Mosheim, Ch. IHst. (N. Y. 1854), iii, 490.
Fabricius, Johannes, a German Orientalist, was born at Dantzic in 1608. After studj-ing at several Ger- man universities, he completed his academical course at Loyden, where he studied Arabic and Persian under Golius. In 1635 he began to lecture on Oriental lan- guages, and especially on Arabic, at Kostock. After travelling, for literary purposes, over nearl}' all Eu- rope, he was made professor of Hebrew at Dantzic in 1642, and died there in 1653. Among his numerous pulilic.itions are Dissertatio Philologica de Nomine Je- hura (Ilostock, 1636, 4to) : — De Incarnatione \oyov, con- tra Sodnianos (Rostock, 1637, 4to) : — Specimen A rahi- cum (163*^, 4to) : — Testamentum Mohammedu Idtine ex GabrieJis Sinaitcn versione (Rostock, 1638, 4,to). — J. A. Fabricius, Centuna Fabriciorum ; Hoefer, Xouv. Bicgr. Gciiirale, xvi, 962. ]
Fabricius, Johannes Albert, " the most learn- ed, most voluminous, and most useful of bildiogra- phers," was born at Leipsic Nov. 11, 1668. He lost his parents at an early age, but was sent to study at (iuedlinburg, where, by reading Barthius's A dversaria, he was inspired with an ardent love of letters. He went to Hamburg in 1693, and spent five j'ears as libra- rian for J. F. Mayer, dividing his time between jireach- ing and study, till he was chosen professor of rhetoric and philo.sophy in the gj'mnasium of that city. In 1719 the landgrave of Hesse-Cassel offered him the professorship of theology at Giessen, and the post of general superintendent of the churches of the Augs- burg Confession ; but the magistrates of Hamburg augmented his salary for the sake of keeping him, and of this he ever after retained so grateful a sense that no ofters of preferment could tempt him to leave them. He died at Hamburg April 3, 1736, with the character of being one of the most learned of men. The list of his published writings exceeds 100 titles.
His principal works are, (1.) Codex Pseudepigraphus Veteris Testamenti, Gr. et Lat. coUectus, et Animadver- sionibus illustratus (Hamb. 1713, 12mo ; 2d ed. with a supplementary volume, ib. 1722-23, 12mo) : — (2.) Codex AjMcryphus N. T. (2d ed. Hamb. 1719, 3 vols, fol.) : see Apocrypha of N. T. : — (3.) Observativnes selectm in varia loca Noi\ Test, variorum auctorum (Hamb. 1712, small 8vo) : — (4.) Bibliotheca Antiqiunia (Hamb. 1713 ; 2d ed. 1760, 2 vols. 4to), containing notices of all writ- ers on Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and Christian antiqui- ties:— (5.) Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica (Hamb. 1718, fol.), collecting the works of a number of Latin ecclesiasti- cal writers : — (6.) Bibliotheca Grmca, slve notitia Script. Vet. Grcecoruw , quonnncunque monum. integ. aut.fragm, edita, extant (Hamb. 1728, 14 vols. 4to). Of this in- valuable collection a fourth and enlarged edition, ed- ited by Harles, was commenced in 1790, of which 12 vols, had appeared up to 1811, extending to vol. xi, p. 544 of the former edition: an Index to the whole was published in 1838 (4to). (7.) Collection of authors on Christian Evidences, under the title Delectus A i-gnmen- torum et Syllabus Scriptoi~um qui vcritatem rcligionis Chrisiianoi asseruerunt, etc. (Hamb. 1725, 4to) : — (8.) Bibliotheca Latina (Venice, 1728, 2 vols. 4to ; ro-cdited by Ernesti, Lips. 1774, 3 vols. 8vo) : — (9.) Bibliotheca media: et injima Latinitatis (Ijest edit. JIansi's, Padua, 1754, 6 vols. 4to) : — Hydrotheologia, written in German, and translated into French under the title Thiologie de V Eau, oil Essai sur la Bonte, la Sagesse, et la Puissance de DitU, manifestles dans la Creation de V Eau (La Have, 1741, 8 vo) : — Conspectus Thesauri Litterarii Italiw (1749, 8vo) ; or notices of the principal collections of the his- torians of Italy, as well as of other writers who have illustrated the antiquities, geography, etc., of that country, including the great works of Burmannus and Grrovius, with an account of the Italian literary jour- nals existing or which had existed before the time of Fabricius, of the Italian academies, and a catalogue of Italian bibliograjihers and biographers classed ac- cording to the particular towns which they have illus- trated : — Salutaris Lux Evangelii, sire Notitia Propa- gatorum per Orbem iotum Christianorum Sacrorum : accedunt Epistolr qncedam inedita: .hdiani Imptratoris, Gregorii Ilabessini Theolof/ia yEthiopica, ntcnon Index geographlcus Episcopatuum Orbis Christiaui (1731, 4to): — Centifolium Lutheranum, sire Notitia Liieraria Scrip- torum omnis generis de Martina Luthero, ejus Vita, Scripti<f, et P'-fornwitione Ecclesim editorum (1730, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Centuria Fabriciorum Scrijit. clarornim qui jam diem suam obienint collecta (1709, 2 ^•ols. 8vo, with a continuation in 1727). The author has included in his list not only the authors whose name or sur- name was Fabricius, but also those whose names may be turned into the Latin Fabricius, such as Lefevre, Fabri, the German Schmidts, etc. Independently of the above and other minor works, Fabricius published editions of Sextus Empiricus, of the Gallia Orientalis