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 .—Of the owners of these names I have been unable to obtain any information.

.—Court-preacher at Stuttgart, where he died in 1654. He was a considerable power in the Church and in the school-room.

.—A German physician residing at Paris, where he died of the plague in 1631. On educational questions he wrote several books, remarkable for their sound common-sense.

This section is signed with Andreæ’s name, but cannot have been written by him, as in the original Bohemian version of the Great Didactic it appears in a considerably altered form. Possibly the last sentence is quoted from one of Andreæ’s works.

Author:Joannes Stobaeus.—A native of Stobi in Macedonia, where he lived about 500, and composed an Anthology of extracts from as many as 500 Greek authors.

.—One of the seven wise men of Greece. Lived about 600

.—A Roman grammarian who lived towards the end of the fourth century

Author:Juan Luis Vives.—One of the great pedagogues of the sixteenth century. Was born at Valencia in 1492; professed the “Humanities” at Louvain and was afterwards invited by Henry VIII. to England, where he became the tutor of the Princess Mary. His best known works on education are: De ratione studii puerilis epistolæ dua; De tradendis disciplinis sive de institutione Christiana; De institutione fæminæ Christianæ; Introductio ad Sapientiam.

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux.—Abbot of Clairvaux in 1115. A man of great ecclesiastical and political influence, and one of the instigators of the Third Crusade.

Author:Lactantius.—For some years tutor to a son of the Emperor Constantine. Converted to Christianity in middle life, he wrote a voluminous treatise, Divinarum institutionum libri vii.; a plea for Christianity, intended for pagans who had received a philosophic education. He died about 330

(1536–1607).—Was successively Professor of Greek at Erfurt, Professor of Rhetoric at Jena, Rector of the school at Meissen, and Professor of Greek and Latin at Leipzig.

.—A renowned sixteenth century scholar and editor of the classics. Sympathised with the Reformation and was a friend of Melanchthon’s. Died in 1574.

.—Nothing appears to be known of this scholar or his works.