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Sturm, Johann

Born: 1 October 1507, Schleiden
Died: 3 March 1589, Strasbourg
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Abstract

Johann Sturm was a Reformed pedagogic innovator, who established a teaching curriculum for gymnasia in order to provide an education based on the humanist ideals and on evangelical piety. This model described the contents and the method of learning for boys from 7 to 16 years and consisted mainly of the study of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic (based on Cicero and on classic literature). His method of learning was based on memorization and imitation rather than on the understanding of formal rules of reasoning. This model, rather than to introduce students to religion, was intended to prepare them to the autonomous understanding of Scripture. Sturm was important also as he contributed to the innovation of biography as a genre, which he intended as more realistic than the typified premodern biographies.

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  1. 1.National Research University Higher School of EconomicsMoscowRussia
  2. 2.Gotha Research CentreUniversity and Research LibraryErfurt/GothaGermany