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Informationen zum Autor Alan S. Ross is Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern History at Humboldt University, Berlin Klappentext The first English language in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century Republic of Letters. Its subject, the German polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar. Zusammenfassung The first English language in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century Republic of Letters. Its subject! the German polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum! left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. 'A veritable gem': culture, authority and education in early modern Zwickau2. The finished scholar: convincing oneself and convincing others3. The virtues of diversity: pedagogical innovation and contested curricula4. The pupils: educational strategies and social mobility 5. Violent aspirations: pupils' transgression and the spectre of university6. Networks, patronage and exploitation: correspondence and the next generation of scholars Conclusion: Civic communities, humanist education and the 'Age of Enlightenment'AppendicesBibliographyIndex
