Matija Grbić

[5] There, he was welcomed by Joachim Camerarius the Elder, who was to become the first biographer of Melanchton and a great friend of Garbitius,[5] and taught the Greek language at the Aegidianum, the first evangelical gymnasium.

[5] According to Tübingen professor Georg Lieber: "Melanchthon had developed great respect for his talented student, and was especially proud of his thorough knowledge of Greek.

Flacius, who was from Labin (Albona), Istria, called him "fellow countryman" (conterraneous) in his writings.

[5] He didn't take sides in the conflict between Flacius and Melanchthon of the 1550s, but rather "stayed neutral, and therefore exercised a more irenic spirit.

He translated and commented two other works from Greek into Latin, which were published posthumously: Aristeae, De Legis Divinae et Hebraica lingua in Graecam translatione (Basel 1561) and Dionysius Halicarnasseus, De Thucydidis historia (Basel 1579).

He composed occasional speeches, of which he published an introduction to his lectures on morality, Oratio et docrina morum et vitae (Tübingen 1545), and a speech on Hippocrates, Oratio de vita, moribus, doctrina et professione Hippocratis (Tübingen 1546).