id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1583 Wilhelm Xylander - Wikipedia .html text/html 792 129 55 Born at Augsburg, he studied at Tübingen, and in 1558, when very short of money (caused, according to some, by his intemperate habits), he was appointed to succeed Jakob Micyllus in the professorship of Greek at the University of Heidelberg; he exchanged it for a chair of logic (publicus organi Aristotelici interpres) in 1562.[2] In Heidelberg church and university politics, Xylander was a close partisan of Thomas Erastus.[3] Xylander was the author of a number of important works, including Latin translations of Dio Cassius (1558), Plutarch (1560–1570) and Strabo (1571). External links[edit] Heidelberg University faculty Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1583.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1583.txt