Liège humanist and theologian. Hodeige, c. 1520 - Alt-Oeting (Bavaria), 1581. After studies at the University of Ingolstadt (Bavaria), he taught for some time theology at the Abbey of St. Gertrude at Louvain (about 1553), before entering the service of Cardinal Otto Truchsess, who sent him in 1560 to Rome to be his 'orator' with Pope Paul IV (till 1565). On his return to Germany Fabricius became a councillor to the Duke of Bavaria and later 'praepositus' of Alt-Oeting. Cf. Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 11, 1890-91, Columns 659-660; H. de Vocht, History of the Foundation and the Rise of the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, 1517-1550, III, 1954, pages 77-78.