FABRICIUS, GEORG (1516–I 571), German poet, his torian, and archaeologist, was born at Chemnitz in upper Saxony on April 23, 1516, and educated at Leipzig. While travelling in Italy he studied 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 it in ancient literature were traced in detail. In 1546 he was appointed rector of the college of Meissen, where he died, July 17, 1751.
F A B R I C I U S, HIERONYMUS AB AQUAPEN DENTE (Fabrizio, Geronimo) (1537-1619), Italian anatomist and embryologist, studied at Padua, where he succeeded his mas ter Fallopius, as teacher of anatomy and surgery, in 1562. Here his studies of the effect of ligatures and the valves in the veins influenced the discoveries of his famous pupil, William Harvey. Fabricius was greatest as a teacher ; he failed to follow his own discoveries to their logical conclusion. Dr. C. Singer (History of Medicine, 1928) calls him the "effective founder of modern embryology." He died at Venice on May 21, 1619. His works include De visione, voce et auditu (1600), De f ormato foetu (1600), De venarum ostiolis (1603) and De formatione ovi et pulli (1621). His collected works were published at Leipzig in 1687 as Opera omnia Anatomica et Physiologica, but the Ley den edition, published by Albinus in 1738, is more complete.