Information AboutXylander |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT GUILIELMUS XYLANDER | |
| german classical scholars | |
| xylander, guilielmus | |
| 1532 births | |
| 1576 deaths | |
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Born at Augsburg , he studied at Tübingen , and in 1558 , when very short of money, he was appointed to succeed Micyllus in the professorship of Greek at the University Of Heidelberg ; he exchanged it for a chair of Logic (''publicus organi Aristotelii iliterpres'') in 1562 . Xylander was the author of a number of important works, including Latin translations of Dio Cassius (1558), Plutarch (1560-1570) and Strabo (1571). He also edited (1568) the geographical Lexicon of Stephanus Of Byzantium ; the travels of Pausanias (completed after his death by F Sylburg, 1583); the ''Meditations'' of Marcus Aurelius (1558, the ''editio princeps'' based on a Heidelberg manuscript now lost; a second edition in 1568 with the addition of Antoninus Liberalis , Phlegon Of Tralles , an unknown Apollonius , and Antigonus Of Carystus --all paradoxographers); and the chronicle of George Cedrenus (1566). He translated the first six books of Euclid into German with notes, the ''Arithmetica'' of Diophantus , and the ''De quattuor mathematicis scientiis'' of Michael Psellus into Latin. REFERENCES |