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Wilhelm Xylander (born Wilhelm Holtzman, graecized to Xylander; 26 December 1532 – 10 February 1576) was a German classical scholar and humanist. Born at Augsburg, he studied at Tübingen, and in 1558, when very short of money (caused, according to some, by his intemperate habits), he was appointed to succeed Jakob Micyllus in the professorship of Greek at the University of Heidelberg; he exchanged it for a chair of logic (''publicus organi Aristotelici interpres'') in 1562. In Heidelberg church and university politics, Xylander was a close partisan of Thomas Erastus. 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 Friedrich 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. ==Works== *(Marcus Aurelius, ''De seipso, seu vita sua, libri 12'' ) ed. and trans. by Xylander. Zurich: Andreas Gessner, 1558. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilhelm Xylander」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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