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XYLANDER, GUILIELMUS (WILHELM HOLTZMAN, according to his own spelling) (1532-1576) , See also:German classical See also:scholar,was See also:born at See also:Augsburg on the 26th of See also:December 1532. He studied at See also:Tubingen, and in 1558, when in a See also:state of abject poverty (caused, according to some, by his intemperate habits), he was appointed to succeed Micyllus (Molshem, Molseym or Molsheym) in the professorship of See also:Greek at See also:Heidelberg, which he exchanged for that of See also:logic (publicus organi Aristotelii interpres) in 1562. He died at Heidelberg on the loth of See also:February 1576. Xylander was the author of a number of important See also:works, among which his Latin See also:translations of Dio See also:Cassius (1558), See also:Plutarch (1560-1570) and See also:Strabo (1571) deserve See also:special mention. He also edited (1568) the See also:geographical See also:lexicon of Stephanus of See also:Byzantium; the travels of See also:Pausanias (completed after his See also:death by F. See also:Sylburg, 1583); the Meditations of See also:Marcus Aurelius (1558, the editio princeps based upon a Heidelberg MS. now lost; a second edition in 1568 with the addition of See also:Antoninus Liberalis, See also:Phlegon of See also:Tralles, an unknown See also:Apollonius, and Antigonus of Carystus—all paradoxographers); and the See also:chronicle of See also:George Cedrenus (1566). He translated the first six books of See also:Euclid into German with notes, the Arithmetica of See also:Diophantus, and the De quattuor mathemalicis scientiis of See also:Michael See also:Psellus into Latin.

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