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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 succeed
Micyllus in the professorship of
Greek at the
University of Heidelberg; he exchanged it for a chair of
logic (
publicus organi Aristotelii interpres) in
1562.
Xylander was the author of a number of important works, including
Latin translations of
Dio Cassius (1558),
Plutarch (1560-1570) and
Strabo (1571). He also edited (1568) the geographical
lexicon of
Stephanus of Byzantium; the travels of
Pausanias (completed after his death by F Sylburg, 1583); the
Meditations of
Marcus Aurelius (1558, the
editio princeps based on a Heidelberg manuscript now lost; a second edition in 1568 with the addition of
Antoninus Liberalis,
Phlegon of Tralles, an unknown
Apollonius, and
Antigonus of Carystus--all paradoxographers); and the chronicle of
George Cedrenus (1566). He translated the first six books of
Euclid into
German with notes, the
Arithmetica of
Diophantus, and the
De quattuor mathematicis scientiis of
Michael Psellus into Latin.
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