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'''Basil Faber''' (1520–1576), [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] schoolmaster and theologian, was born in [[Żary|Sorau]] (modern Żary), in lower [[Lusatia]], in 1520. In 1538 he entered the [[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg|University of Wittenberg]], studying as ''pauper gratis'' under [[Philipp Melanchthon]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Faber, Basil|volume=3|page=111}} This cites Wagenmann and G. Müller in Herzog-Hauck's ''[[Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge|Realencyklopädie]]'' (1898).</ref>

Choosing the schoolmaster's profession, he became successively rector of the schools at [[Nordhausen, Thuringia|Nordhausen]], [[Tennstadt]] (1555), [[Magdeburg]] (1557) and [[Quedlinburg]] (1560). From this last post he was removed in December 1570 as a [[Crypto-Calvinism|crypto-Calvinist]]. In 1571 he was appointed to the Rathsgymnasium at [[Erfurt]], not as rector, but as director (''Vorsteher''). In this situation he remained till his death in 1575 or 1576.<ref name="EB1911"/>

His translation of the first twenty-five chapters of [[Martin Luther|Luther's]] commentary on ''[[Book of Genesis|Genesis]]'' was published in 1557; in other ways he promoted the spread of Lutheran views. He was a contributor to the first four of the ''[[Magdeburg Centuries]]''. He is best known by his ''Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae'' (1571; last edition, improved by J. H. Leich, 1749, folio, 2 vols.); this was followed by his ''Libellus de disciplina scholastica'' (1572).<ref name="EB1911"/>

==Selected works==
* Libellus de Synonymia Terentii et copiosa phrasium et locutionum commutatione, Leipzig 1553, 2. Bd. 1556
* Loci observatorium atque expositionum indices numerosissimi in Cicerone Epistolae Familiares omnes, Leipzig 1553
* Libellus de ratione genuina dicendi et scribendi, monstrata e Terentio et Cicerone, Leipzig 1554
* Elenchus legum et disciplinae scholasticae, 1571
* Libellus de disciplina scholastica, 1572
* Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae, 1571, 1587, 1623, 1625, 1691, 1749

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