Background
Fabricius was born as born Georg Goldschmidt on the 23rd of April, 1516 in Chemnitz, Germany.
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Fabricius was born as born Georg Goldschmidt on the 23rd of April, 1516 in Chemnitz, Germany.
Travelling in Italy with one of his pupils, Georg Fabricius made an exhaustive study of the antiquities of Rome. He published the results in his Roma (1550), in which the correspondence between every discoverable relic of the old city and the references to them in ancient literature was traced in detail. In 1546 he was appointed rector of Saint Afra in Meissen.
In 1549 Fabricius edited the first short selection of Roman inscriptions specifically focusing on legal texts.
This was a key moment in the history of classical epigraphy: for the first time in print a humanist explicitly demonstrated the value of such archaeological remains for the discipline of law, and implicitly accorded texts inscribed in stone as authoritative status as those recorded in manuscripts. Fabricius died at Meissen.
Rerum Germaniae magnae et Saxoniae universae memorabilium mirabiliumque volumina duo (1609). A life of Georg Fabricius was published in 1839 by Doctorate. C. West. Baumgarten-Crusius, who in 1845 also issued an edition of Fabricius's Epistolae ad West Meurerum et alios aequales, with a short sketch De Vita Ge.