Matthäus Dresser, (also: Matteaus, Matthaei; Dressler, Drescher, Dresserus, Dresseri) (24 August 1536 in Erfurt – 5 October 1607 in Leipzig) was a Lutheran German humanist, pedagogue, philosopher, and historian. Education and career Dresser attended school in Erfurt and Eisleben, and later studied at the University or Erfurt, where he attended lectures by Martin Seidemann. In Erfurt, records of Dresser go back to 1559, where he earned a Masters of Philosophy. In 1560, he learned Biblical Hebrew during his university studies. When the Protestant Council Grammar School of Erfurt[de] began construction in 1561, Dresser participated in the founding of the University, where he became a professor of Greek Literature. Dressner aspired to attend the University of Wittenberg, but was unable to do so due to illness at the time. In 1575, Dresser became the rector of the Electoral Provincial School of St. Afra school in Meissen. After six years of tenure, he became a professor of Greco-Roman liturgy and history at the University of Leipzig. There, he was appointed dean of the philosophy school, and was the rector of alma mater in 1599. Dresser translated several works of Latin into German, such as Prophyry's Isagoge. He later became the electoral historiographer of Saxony. Personal life Dresser was married twice in his life. His first marriage was to Juliana Sarcerius, daughter of Lutheran theologian and disciple Erasmus Sarcerius. After the death of Juliana, Dresser maried Maria Cordes, the daughter of the prepositus at Leipzig University, M. Henricus Cordes. He did not produce progeny in either marriage. Dresser died of Malaria on October 7th, 1607, and was buried at the Paulinerkirche. Selected bibliography Oratio isocratis Rhetoris Atheniensis disertissimi, eleganter disserens de officio Magistratus erga subditos et subditorum erga Magistratur etc., conversa e Graeco in Latinum (1558) Rhetorica, inventionis, dispositionis et elocutionis illustrata et locuplctata quam plurimis exemplis sacris et philosophicis (1570) M. T. Ciceronis de Natura Deorum libri III cum argumentis, oeconomia, et rerum verborumque accur. et artif. enodatione; additae sunt ad finem cujusque libri disputatione etc. (1572) Gymnasmatum linguae graecae libri III orationum, epistolarum et carminum exempla sacra et profana complectentes. (1574) De disciplina nova et veteri tam domestica quam scholastica (1577) Elocutionis rhetoricae doctrina, praeceptis et exemplis cum sacris tum philosophicis exposita et locupletata (1580) Oratio de dialectica Philippi Melanchthonis (1580) Catechismus Parvus D. Martini Lutheri, cum scholis et nonnullis textibus biblicis de festis anni, Item precationibus scholasticis (1581) Oratio de