Friedrich Sylburg
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Friedrich Sylburg (1536 – 17 February 1596) was a German classical scholar.[1]
The son of a farmer, he was born at Wetter near
Henry Estienne
(Stephanus), to whose great Greek Thesaurus Sylburg afterwards made important contributions.
Returning to Germany, he held educational posts at
Dionysius Halicarnassensis (one of his best pieces of work, highly praised by Carsten Niebuhr), Paeanius, Aristotle, the Greek and Latin sources for the history of the Roman emperors and the Peri syntaxeos of Apollonius Dyscolus
.
In 1591 he moved to
and other works. All Sylburg's editions show great critical power and indefatigable industry; the latter may well have caused his death.Works
- F. Sylburg (Ed.), Dionisii Halicarnassei scripta quae exstant, omnia, et historica, et rhetorica (Frankfurt: heirs of Andreas Wechel 1586) (parallel Greek and Latin), available at Google Books
- Notes of Sylburg in a critical edition of Aristotle, De Poetica Liber (parallel Greek and Latin), available at Google Books
- Ἐτυμολογικὸν τὸ Μέγα or Etymologicon Magnum (Leipzig, 1816) (in Greek), available at Google Books
- Various Works of Sylburg held and digitized in original editions, freely available at Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek
- List of Works in WorldCat
References
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sylburg, Friedrich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.. For additional information, see article on Friedrich Sylburg in German from Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie at German Wikisource
- ^ See article in German by K. Steif on the Wechel family publishing enterprise, in Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliographie, at German Wikisource.
- ^ See article in German by Ernst Kelchner on Jerome Commelin in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie at German Wikisource
Literature and additional sources
- J. G. Jungius, Vita Frid. Sylburgii (Berleburgi & Frankfurt, 1745).
- Fr. Creuzer, 'De Frid. Sylburgii vita et scriptis oratio', in Nova Acta soc. Lat. Jenensis (ed. Eichstädt), vol. I (Lips. 1806), p. 79–102.
- Fr. Creuzer, Frid. Sylburgi epistolae quinque ad Paulum Melissum (Five letters of Friedrich Sylburg to Paul Melissum) (Frankfurt 1827). Also in Creuzer's Selected Works (Lips. 1854), p. 195–213.
- K. W. Justi, 'Friedrich Sylburg', in Strieder's Hessischer Gelehrten-Geschichte, Vol. 18 (Marburg 1819), p. 481–494. Also as a separate printing, Marburg 1818. This work cites references to earlier writing about Sylburg.
- Schoell, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, vol. 18 (Paris 1826), p. 301 ff.
- L. Kayser, 'Heidelberger Philologen im 16. Jahrhundert,' printed in the Festschrift zur Begrüßung der 24. Philologenversammlung (Leipzig 1865), p. 142–147.
- Sylburg's writings are listed by Joachim Jungius cited above, p. 35–38; in Christian Gottlieb Jöcher’s Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon (1750–51), Vol. IV, Sp. 956 f.; in Johann Heinrich Zedler’s Universal-Lexikon, Vol. 41, Sp. 555–57; and most fully by Karl Wilhelm Justi cited above, p. 490–92.
