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mother's last words were " Stick to the school, dear son." The words determined his career: he refused all ecclesiastical promotion, and lived and died a schoolmaster. He became a distinguished student, learned Ciceronian Latin from See also:

Peter Mdssellanus and See also:

Greek from See also:

Richard Croke, and after See also:

GRADUATION (see also GRADUATE)

graduation was appointed assistant See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master in the school at Gorlitz. There he also taught the See also:

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector and other teachers. When See also:

LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther began his attack on indulgences, Trotzendorff resigned his position and went to study under Luther and See also:

MELANCHTHON, FHILIPP (1497–155o)

Melanchthon, supporting himself by private tuition. Thence he was called to be a master in the school at See also:

GOLDBERG

Goldberg in Silesia, and in 1524 became rector. There he remained three years, when he was sent to See also:

LIEGNITZ

Liegnitz. He re-turned to Goldberg in 1531 and began that career which has made him the typical German schoolmaster of the See also:

Reformation See also:

period. His See also:

SYSTEM

system of education and discipline speedily attracted See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention. He made his best See also:

elder scholars the teachers of the younger classes, and insisted that the way to learn was to See also:

TEACH [THATCH OR THACH], EDWARD (d. 1718)

teach. He organized the school in such a way that the whole See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary discipline was in the hands of the boys themselves.

Every See also:

month a " See also:

consul," twelve " senators " and two " censors " were chosen from the pupils, and over all Trotzendorff ruled as " See also:

DICTATOR (from the Lat. dictare, frequentative of dicere, to speak)

dictator perpetuus." One See also:

HOUR

hour a See also:

day was spent in going over the lessons of the previous day. The lessons were repeatedly recalled by See also:

EXAMINATIONS

examinations, which were conducted on the See also:

plan of academical disputations. Every See also:

WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week each See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil had to write two " exercitia styli," one in See also:

PROSE

prose and the other in See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, and Trotzendorff took pains to see that the subject of each exercise was something interesting. The fame of the Goldberg School extended over all See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

Germany, and a large number of the more famous men of the following See also:

GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation were taught by Trotzendorff. He died on the loth of See also:

APRIL

April 1556. See Herrmann, Merkunirdige Lebensgeschichte eines beriihmten Schulmanns, V. F. Trotzendorifs (1727); Frosch, V. F. Trotzendorff, Rektor zu Goldberg (1818); Pinzger, V. F. Trotzendorff (with the Goldberg portrait, and a See also:

COMPLETE

complete See also:

list of his writings, 1825) ; Koehler, V.

F. Trotzendorff, ein biographischer Versuch (1848). The See also:

BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical facts appear to be derived from a funeral or memorial oration delivered by Balthasar Rhau in the university of See also:

WITTENBERG

Wittenberg on the 15th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1564, and published in an edition of Trotzendorff's Rosarium (1565).

End of Article: TROTZENDORFF (or TROCEDORFIUS), VALENTIN

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