Editing Johann Albert Fabricius (section)

==Biography==
Fabricius was born in [[Leipzig]], son of Werner Fabricius, director of music in the church of St. Paul at Leipzig, who was the author of several works, the most important being ''Deliciae Harmonicae'' (1656). The son received his early education from his father, who on his deathbed recommended him to the care of the theologian [[Valentin Alberti]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

He studied under [[J. G. Herrichen]], and afterwards at [[Quedlinburg]] under Samuel Schmid. It was in Schmid’s library, as he afterwards said, that he found the two books, [[Kaspar von Barth]]'s compendium ''Adversariorum libri LX'' (1624) and [[Daniel Georg Morhof]]'s ''Polyhistor'' (1688), which suggested to him the idea of his ''Bibliothecæ'', the kind of works on which his great reputation was ultimately founded.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

On returning to Leipzig in 1686, he published anonymously two years later his first work, ''Scriptorum recentiorum decas'', an attack on ten writers of the day.  His ''Decas Decadum, sive plagiariorum et pseudonymorum centuria'' (1689) is the only one of his works to which he signs the name Faber.  Fabricius then applied himself to the study of medicine, which, however, he relinquished for that of [[theology]]; and having gone to [[Hamburg]] in 1693, he proposed to travel abroad, when the unexpected tidings that the expense of his education had absorbed his whole patrimony, and even left him in debt to his trustee, forced him to abandon this project.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}  In 1693 he published a doctoral dissertation ''De Platonismo Philonis Judaei'' which contributed to [[Philo of Alexandria]]'s losing his position as an "honorary [[Church Father]]".<ref>Runia, David T. Philo in Early Christian Literature, p. 31.</ref>

He therefore remained at Hamburg in the capacity of librarian to [[Johann Friedrich Mayer (theologian)|Johann Friedrich Mayer]] (1650–1712).  In 1696 he accompanied his patron to [[Sweden]]; and on his return to Hamburg, not long afterwards, he became a candidate for the chair of logic and philosophy.  The suffrages being equally divided between Fabricius and [[Sebastian Edzardus]], one of his opponents, the appointment was decided by lot in favour of Edzardus; but in 1699 Fabricius succeeded [[Vincent Placcius]] in the chair of [[rhetoric]] and [[ethics]], a post which he held until his death, refusing invitations to [[Greifswald]], [[Kiel]], [[Giessen]], and [[Wittenberg]].  He died in Hamburg.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

The details of the life of Fabricius are to be found in ''De Vita et Scriptis J. A. Fabricii Commentarius'', by his son-in-law, [[Hermann Samuel Reimarus|H. S. Reimarus]], the editor of [[Dio Cassius]], published at Hamburg in 1737.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref>[[Karl Christian Wilhelm Felix Bähr|C. F. Bähr]] in [[Johann Samuel Ersch|Ersch]] and [[Johann Gottfried Gruber|Gruber]]'s ''Allgemeine Encyclopaedie''; [[John Edwin Sandys|J. E. Sandys]], ''Hist. Class. Schol.'' iii (1908).</ref>

Commenting on Psalm 123.2 of Origen's scholium, Fabricius writes; "ad locum 1 Joh v. 7 alludi ab origene non est dubitandum".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Yvw2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA544 ''Codex Apocryphus Novi Testamenti''], p.544 first published in 1703.</ref>