Georg Fabricius, a German scholar, born in Chemnitz, Saxony, April 24, 1516, died in Meissen. July 13, 1571. He was director of the college of Meissen. His edition of Horace (2 vols., Basel, 1555) is still esteemed. He wrote Latin poetry with great purity, and in his sacred poems he would employ no words which had the slightest flavor of paganism. Baumgarten-Crusius wrote a sketch of his life and writings (Meissen, 1839).