Sixt Birck (M / Germany, 1501-1554), scholar, playwright

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Sixt Birck / Xystus Betuleius (1501-1554) was a German scholar and playwright. Born February 24, 1501 in Augsburg [Germany], Birck was a teacher in Basel (1530-36), before returning to Augsburg as a school headmaster. Brick died June 19, 1554.

Works

Books

• Edition of the Sibylline Oracles

• First concordance of the Greek New Testament

Plays

• Iudith (1532 Birck), play

• Susanna (1532 Birck), play
• Tragödie wider die Abgötterei, 1535 Birck), play

• Beel (1535 Birck), play
• Zorobabel (1538 Birck), play
• Ezechias (1538 Birck), play
• Joseph (1539 Birck), play

• Sapientia Solomonis (1547 Birck), play

External links

• Wikipedia.en -- Wikipedia.de