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 72 HISTORY OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE by students from Saxony and Poraerania also ; and it acquired a position of prominent educational influence throughout North-western Germany. It became a prolific training establishment of able and excellent teachers, who in a very short time were actively at work in many towns of Westphalia and the Ehine, and in the north as far as Goslar, Eostock, Liibeck, Greifswald, and Copenhagen. The cathedral school of Minister owed its reputa- tion and standing chiefly to Johannes Murmellius, whom Langen had appointed as his co-rector, and who gained a distinguished place as philosopher, pedagogic writer, scholar, and Latin poet among the revivers of classical studies and the reformers of school systems. He, too, laboured in the spirit of his master, Hegius. ' The aim of all study,' he writes, ' should be nothing else than the knowledge and glorification of God. Those only are wise indeed who apply themselves to study in order that they may learn to live well themselves, and may help others by their learning in the practice of justice and piety. Nothing is more dangerous than a man who is both learned and wicked. To know nothing is better than learning combined with sin.' His labours as author, over and above grammar and lexicography, were specially devoted to the editing of Latin works, not those of the classic writers only, but later Christian writers. He wrote twenty-five books of instruction, several of which were used for centuries long in the schools of Germany and Holland. At his instigation Johann Cesarius was summoned to Minister in 1512, and he inaugurated lectures on the Greek lammao-e. Among Rudolph Langen's learned friends was the