Fabricius

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Fabricius (Latin: smith, German: Schmied, Schmidt) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • people from the Ancient Roman gens Fabricia:
  • Johann Goldsmid (1587–1616), known by his Latinized name Johann Fabricius, and son of David Fabricius (1564–1617). Astronomer who discovered the variability of the star Mira Ceti in 1596.
  • Carel Fabritius (sometimes spelled Fabricius, 1622–1654), Dutch painter
  • David Fabricius (1564–1617), German theologian and astronomer, discoverer of the variable star Mira
  • Ernst Fabricius (1857–1942), German historian, archaeologist and classical scholar
  • Georg Fabricius (1516–1571), German poet, historian and archaeologist
  • Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio (1537–1619), Italian anatomist
  • Hildanus Fabricius (Wilhelm Fabry) (1560–1634), German anatomist and surgeon
  • Jan Fabricius (1871-1964), Dutch journalist and playwright
  • Johan Fabricius (1899–1981), Dutch writer, journalist and adventurer
  • , German orientalist, professor of Hebrew at Rostock
  • Johann Albert Fabricius (1668–1736), German classical scholar, publisher, and librarian
  • Johann Phillip Fabricius (1711–1791), German Christian missionary in southern India
  • Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808), Danish botanist and entomologist
  • Johannes Fabricius, (1587–1615) Frisian astronomer, discoverer of sunspots, son of David Fabricius
  • Nanna Øland Fabricius (1985–) Danish singer-songwriter, great-great-granddaughter of Otto Fabricius
  • Otto Fabricius (1744–1822) Danish missionary, naturalist, ethnographer and explorer of Greenland
  • (1714–1774), German botanist
  • Werner Fabricius, German composer, father of Johann Albert Fabricius
  • , German ambassador to Romania under Hitler
  • Alexander Carpenter, Latinized Fabricius, (fl. 1429), English religious philosopher and author
  • B. Fabricius, pseudonym of Heinrich Theodor Dittrich, German philologist and librarian

See also[]

  • Fabricius (crater), a lunar impact crater in the northeast part of the walled plain Janssen
  • Fabrizio (disambiguation)
  • Fabritius (disambiguation)
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