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TROTZENDORFF (or TROCEDORFIUS), VALENTIN FRIED-LAND (149o-1556), German educationist, called Trotzendorff from his birthplace, near Gorlitz, in Prussian Silesia, was born on the 14th of February 1490, of parents so poor that they could not keep him at school. The boy taught himself to read and write while herding cattle; he made paper from birch bark and ink from soot. When difficulties were overcome and he was sent for education to Gorlitz, his 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 Peter Mdssellanus and Greek from Richard Croke, and after graduation was appointed assistant master in the school at Gorlitz. There he also taught the rector and other teachers. When Luther began his attack on indulgences, Trotzendorff resigned his position and went to study under Luther and Melanchthon, supporting himself by private tuition. Thence he was called to be a master in the school at Goldberg in Silesia, and in 1524 became rector . There he remained three years, when he was sent to Liegnitz. He re-turned to Goldberg in 1531 and began that career which has made him the typical German schoolmaster of the Reformation period. His system of education and discipline speedily attracted attention. He made his best elder scholars the teachers of the younger classes, and insisted that the way to learn was to teach. He organized the school in such a way that the whole ordinary discipline was in the hands of the boys themselves. Every month a " consul
week each pupil had to write two " exercitia styli," one in prose
Protestant
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 complete list
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