Other Jacob Fabers in The Northern Renaissance
The name Jakob or Jacob Faber may mean several people, especially in the context of the Northern Renaissance, when at least three figures known by this name were active at the same time.
- Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, (c.1455-1536) French Renaissance humanist and theologian, called "of Etaples" to avoid confusion with the others, and often referred to by the hybrid German-Latin name "Jacob" or "Jakob Faber Stapulensis". He had a sometimes tense relationship with Erasmus, whose work on Biblical translation and in theology closely paralleled his own.
- Jacques Lefèvre/Jacob Faber, of Deventer, (1473-after 1517), a Netherlandish Renaissance humanist and friend and correspondent of Erasmus, and of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples. He worked most of his life as a schoolmaster.
- Jakob Faber, an alchemist working in Bohemia in 1585.
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