Editing Georg Fabricius (section)

== Life ==
Fabricius was born as '''Georg Goldschmidt''' in [[Chemnitz]] in [[Saxony]] on 23 April 1516.<ref name=encit>{{citation |last=Gabetti |first=Giuseppe |contribution-url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/georg-fabricius_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/ |contribution=Fabricius, Georg |date=1932 |title=[[Enciclopedia Italiana]] |language=it |publisher=Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana |location=Rome }}.</ref> He was educated at the [[University of Leipzig]]. In 1546 he was appointed rector of [[Sächsisches Landesgymnasium Sankt Afra zu Meißen|Saint Afra]] in [[Meissen]].<ref name=Britanica>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Fabricius, Georg|volume=10|page=119}}</ref>

Travelling in Italy with one of his pupils, he made an exhaustive study of the antiquities of [[Rome]]. 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 [[archaeology|archaeological]] remains for the discipline of law, and implicitly accorded texts inscribed in stone as authoritative a status as those recorded in manuscripts.<ref name=Britanica /> He published fuller results in his ''Roma'', 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 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.<ref name=Britanica />

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]], {{ill|Johann Reusch|de}} and [[Wolfgang Figulus]].<ref>{{Cite Grove |title=Fabricius [Goldschmidt], Georg |date=2001 |first=Heinrich |last=Hüschen |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09189}}</ref>

Fabricius died at [[Meissen]] on 17 July 1571.<ref name=encit/>