- Guilielmus Xylander
Guilielmus Xylander (Wilhelm Holtzman, according to his own spelling) (
December 26 ,1532 -February 10 ,1576 ) was a German classical scholar.Born at
Augsburg , he studied at Tübingen, and in 1558, when very short of money, he was appointed to succeedMicyllus in the professorship of Greek at theUniversity of Heidelberg ; he exchanged it for a chair oflogic ("publicus organi Aristotelii interpres") in 1562.Xylander was the author of a number of important works, including
Latin translations ofDio Cassius (1558),Plutarch (1560-1570) andStrabo (1571). He also edited (1568) the geographicallexicon ofStephanus of Byzantium ; the travels of Pausanias (completed after his death by F Sylburg, 1583); the "Meditations" ofMarcus Aurelius (1558, the "editio princeps" based on a Heidelberg manuscript now lost; a second edition in 1568 with the addition ofAntoninus Liberalis ,Phlegon of Tralles , an unknownApollonius , andAntigonus of Carystus --all paradoxographers); and the chronicle ofGeorge Cedrenus (1566). He translated the first six books ofEuclid into German with notes, the "Arithmetica" ofDiophantus , and the "De quattuor mathematicis scientiis" ofMichael Psellus into Latin.References
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