The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Lattmann, Julius

LATTMANN, lăt'mân, Julius, German educator: b. Goslar, 4 March 1818; d. Göttingen, 20 Aug. 1898. He was educated at the University of Göttingen, taught in the gymnasium at Göttingen in 1847-60, and in 1870-90 he was director of the gymnasium at Clausthal. He was deeply interested in theories of linguistic teaching and reforms therein, and wrote a large number of textbooks. Author of &lsquo;Kombination der methodischen Principien im lateinischen Unterricht&rsquo; (1882; 2d ed., 1888); &lsquo;Cornelii Nepotis Liber Emendatus et Suppletus&rsquo; (1880; 8th ed., 1889); &lsquo;Ausgleichende Lösung der Reformbewegungen des höheren Schulwesens&rsquo; (1889), etc.