Friedrich Sylburg (1536 – 17 February 1596) was a German classical scholar. The son of a farmer, he was born at Wetter near

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. He studied at Marburg,

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, and, lastly,

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, where his teacher was Henry Estienne (Stephanus), to whose great ''Greek Thesaurus'' Sylburg afterwards made important contributions. Returning to Germany, he held educational posts at Neuhausen near

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and at

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near

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, where he edited a useful edition of the ''Institutiones in graecam linguam'' (1580) of Nicolaus Clenardus (Cleynaerts). In 1583 he resigned his post at Lich and moved to

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to act as corrector and editor of Greek texts for the enterprising publisher Johann Wechel. To his Frankfurt period belong the editions of

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Dionysius Halicarnassensis Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( grc, Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, ; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary styl ...

(one of his best pieces of work, highly praised by

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, the Greek and Latin sources for the history of the Roman emperors and the ''Peri syntaxeos'' of

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. In 1591 he moved to

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, where he became

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to the elector palatine. The Wechel series was continued by Hieronymus Commelinus (Jerome Commelin) of Heidelberg,See article in German by Ernst Kelchner on Jerome Commelin in ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' a
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/ref> for whom Sylburg edited

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, the ''Etymologicum magnum'', the ''Scriptores de re rustica'', the Greek

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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

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1586) (parallel Greek and Latin)
available at Google Books
* Notes of Sylburg in a critical edition of

, '' 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

*List of Works in ttp://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84-77676 WorldCat

References

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

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cited above, p. 35–38; in

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (20 July 1694 – 10 May 1758) was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer. Jöcher was born in Leipzig, and became professor of history at the University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität ...

’s ''Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon'' (1750–51), Vol. IV, Sp. 956 f.; in

Johann Heinrich Zedler Johann Heinrich Zedler (7 January 1706 in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) – 21 March 1751 in Leipzig) was a bookseller and publisher. His most important achievement was the creation of a German encyclopedia, the '' Grosses Universal-Lexicon (Gre ...

’s ''Universal-Lexikon'', Vol. 41, Sp. 555–57; and most fully by Karl Wilhelm Justi cited above, p. 490–92. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sylburg, Friedrich 1536 births 1596 deaths German classical scholars