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RATKE (RATCHIUS), WOLFGANG (1571-1635)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 918 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RATKE (RATCHIUS), WOLFGANG (1571-1635) , See also:German educationist, was See also:born at Wilster, See also:Holstein, on the 18th of See also:October 1571, and educated at the university of See also:Rostock. His See also:system of See also:education was based upon See also:Bacon's See also:philosophy, the principle being that of " proceeding from things to names," See also:RATON from the particular to the See also:general, and from the See also:mother See also:tongue to See also:foreign See also:languages. In 1618 he opened See also:schools at See also:Augsburg and elsewhere, but at KSthen difficulties with the See also:clergy led to his imprisonment for eight months, and after starting another school at See also:Magdeburg in 162o which failed, he became a wanderer and died at See also:Erfurt on the 27th of See also:April 1635. His ideas were far in advance of his See also:time, but he lacked executive ability.

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