Valentin Friedland

Valentin Friedland called Trozendorf ( born February 14, 1490 Troitschendorf in Görlitz, today rural community of Zgorzelec, Poland, † April 26, 1556 in Legnica ) was a humanist education and founder and rector of the first grammar school in Silesia.

Life

Valentin Friedland, usually Trozendorf after his birthplace ( Troitschendorf ) called, visited the school to Görlitz, studied in Leipzig and in 1515 came as a teacher again to Görlitz, where he spread the knowledge of Greek. Luther's appearance caused him to resign in 1518 and to go to Wittenberg, where he Reformers - especially Melanchthon - intimately joined.

In 1523 he was appointed as rector of the grammar school to Goldberg in Lower Silesia. 1527 he was appointed by the Duke of Liegnitz Frederick II to the reasoned from this Protestant university Legnica, also attended the humanist Valentin Krautwald taught. In 1529 he went to Wittenberg in 1531 for the second time according to Goldberg. Under his 33 - year leadership, the school came there to a European celebrity. Exclusive instruction and colloquial language was Latin.

The Schulcötus was organized after the pattern of the Roman Republic: there were consuls, senators, censors, Quaestors and comitia; over the whole small state was Trotzendorf themselves as stern Dictator perpetuus. He was, as Melanchthon says of him, born as rector, as the elder Scipio Africanus to the general. When in 1554 the school house burned to Goldberg, he moved his school to Liegnitz.