Fabricius, Johann Albert
Fabricius, Johann Albert
Fabricius, Johann Albert, eminent German bibliographer, son of Werner Fabricius; b. Leipzig, Nov. 11, 1668; d. Hamburg, April 30, 1736. A learned man, he was a prof, of elocution. He publ. important reference books, valuable to musicology for the information they contain on musical topics.
Writings
Thesaurus anticjuitatum hebraicarum (7 vols., 1713); Bibliotheca latina mediae et infimae aetatis (6 vols., 1712–22; 2nd ed., 1734); Bibliotheca graeca sive notitia scriptorum veterum graecorum (14 vols., 1705–28).
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