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GERMAN EDUCATIONAL REFORMERS; Memoirs of Eminent Teachers and Educators in Germany, from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century, with contributions to the History of Education from the Revival of Classical Learning. From the "Geschichte der Padagogik" of Karl von Raumer. Republished from "The American Journal of Education," edited by HENRY BARNARD, LL. D. 586 pages. Price, $3.00.

CONTENTS.

Preface,.....

Memoir of Karl von Raumer,.

I. INTRODUCTION. Revival of Classical Literature in Italy,.....

1. The Middle Ages-Condition of Studies, Teaching and the Arts,.

2. Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch,..

3. Greek Scholars from Constantinople, John of Ravenna, Chrysoloras,............

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4. Italian Teachers-Guarino, Philelphus, Poggius, Valla, Landinus, Politianus, Picus, 49 5. Transition to Germany,......

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II. DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE NETHERLANDS AND NORTHERN GERMANY,. 65-130 1. Gerard of Daventer-Radewin-Gerard of Zutphen-The Hieronymians,..

2. Wessel-Rudolph Agricola-Hegius-Lange-Busch,...............

3. Erasmus,.....

4. School of Schlettstadt-Dringenberg-Wimpheling-Reuchlin,....

APPENDIX. Condition of Schools and Teachers in the Sixteenth Century...
Autobiography of John Platter; A-B-C-shooters and Bacchants,.

III. THE PERIOD OF THE REFORMATION,..

1. Martin Luther,..............

2. Philip Melancthon...........

3. Valentine Friedland Trotzendorf,..

4. John Sturm,..........

5. Michael Neander,...

6. Ignatius Loyola and the Schools of the Jesuits,.

7. The Early School Codes of Germany,........

1. Dutchy of Wirtemberg; 2. Electorate of Saxony,.

8. The Universities of the Sixteenth Century,..

IV. REALISM,..

1. Verbal Realism-Erasmus-Melancthon,.....

2. Real Realism-Influence of Lord Bacon's Philosophy,......

3. Real Schools. Hecker, Halm, Semler; Modern Development of Realistic Instruction, 302 4. Michael Montaigne,.....

V. THE RENOVATORS, OR PROGRESSIVES,...

4. Schools and Education in Periods of Peace and War,.......

1. The Thirty Years' War; 2. The Century after the Peace of Westphalia....... 416

5. John Locke and Influence of his Pedagogy on German Education,...

6. Augustus Hermann Franke, and the Pietists,...

7. Jean Jaques Rousseau and his Influence on the Philanthropinists,..

8. The Philanthropinum at Dessau,..

John Bernhard Basedow,........

VI. THE REFORMATORY PHILOLOGISTS,.. 1. Johann Mathias Gesner,.

2. John August Ernesti,.

3. Johann Georg Hamann,.

3. Johann Gotfried Herder,.....

4. Friedrich August Wolf,.........

VII. PESTALOZzi and the COMMON, OR PEOPLE'S SCHOOLS,.....