Wilhelm Xylander - Wikipedia Wilhelm Xylander From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search German humanist and classical scholar (1532–1576) Wilhelm Xylander Engraving from Bibliotheca chalcographica Born 26 December 1532 Augsburg Died 10 February 1576(1576-02-10) (aged 43) Heidelberg Nationality German Other names Guilielmus Xylander, Wilhelm Holtzmann Occupation Arts Professor Known for First translation of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius into Latin Wilhelm Xylander (born Wilhelm Holtzman, graecized to Xylander; 26 December 1532 – 10 February 1576) was a German classical scholar and humanist. He served as rector of Heidelberg University in 1564.[1] Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 References 4 External links Biography[edit] 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). He also edited (1568) the geographical lexicon of Stephanus of Byzantium; the travels of Pausanias (completed after his death by Friedrich 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,[4] and the De quattuor mathematicis scientiis of Michael Psellus into Latin.[2] Works[edit] Marcus Aurelius, De seipso, seu vita sua, libri 12 ed. and trans. by Xylander. Zurich: Andreas Gessner, 1558. References[edit] ^ Drüll, Dagmar (2002). Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1386-1651. Berlin: Springer. pp. 562–3. ISBN 3540435301. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Xylander, Guilielmus". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 889. ^ Gunnoe, Charles (2011). Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate: A Renaissance Physician in the Second Reformation. Leiden: Brill. p. 201. ISBN 9789004187924. ^ Weil, André (2006). Number Theory: An approach through history from Hammurapi to Legendre. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 31. ISBN 9780817645656. External links[edit] Fritz Schöll (1898), "Xylander, Wilhelm", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 44, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 582–593 Works of Wilhelm Xylander available at the Munich Digitisation Centre (MDZ) Authority control General Integrated Authority File ISNI 1 VIAF 1 WorldCat National libraries France (data) United States Czech Republic Greece Israel Netherlands Poland Sweden Vatican Scientific databases CiNii (Japan) Other SUDOC (France) 1 Trove (Australia) 1 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Xylander&oldid=1018282976" Categories: 1532 births 1576 deaths German classical scholars University of Tübingen alumni Heidelberg University faculty Humboldt University of Berlin faculty Greek–Latin translators Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles with hCards CS1 German-language sources (de) Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLG identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Use dmy dates from March 2017 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica articles with no significant updates Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Català Deutsch Español Esperanto Français Italiano Latina مصرى 日本語 Русский Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 17 April 2021, at 06:48 (UTC). 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