Johannes Sturm
Johannes Sturm, Latinized Ioannes Sturmius French Jean Sturm, Johann Sturm ( born October 1, 1507 Schleiden, then in the Luxembourg Eifel † March 3, 1589 in Strasbourg, Alsace ) was a humanist and school reformer, scholar and educator. He has significantly influenced the European education system.
Life
Johannes Sturm, son of a Rentmeisters of the Counts of Manderscheid, attended from 1521 to 1524 the Hieronymitenschule the Brothers of the Common Life in Liège and then studied at the University of Leuven. He sat down during his studies studied the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam. In lions, he founded a Hellenist a print in which he brought out mainly Greek classics. 1529 he was appointed as Professor classical languages and logic at the Collège Royal in Paris. Storm was considered representative of the educational ideas of Philipp Melanchthon and the theological doctrines of the Reformation, which he joined, without dogmatically to hang in the aftermath of a direction.
1537 he was appointed by Jacob Sturm of Sturmeck ( the was not related to him ) and the Strasbourg reformer Martin Bucer called to Strasbourg, where he founded next to the Theologenkonvikt and Pädagogium existing one school the following year, the Schola Argentoratensis ( Strasbourg school) - today Jean- storm -Gymnasium ( Gymnase Jean Sturm ) - and its first rector was. In the same year of his time because of his translations of the writings of Greek physicians ( Galen and others) settled famous Protestant scholar, physician and anatomist Dr. Johann Winter of Andernach, undertook the storm as a Greek teacher at his newly founded school. The reorganization of the school system in Strasbourg, as well as curriculum, method and goal he had published in his treatise " De litterarum ludis recte aperiendis liber ". The educationally advanced for its time school offered later lectures in dialectic, rhetoric, theology, philosophy, law and medicine. 1566 she was awarded by Emperor Maximilian II, the Academy privilege, could, among other things, granting promotions.
This was very rapidly in Europe a model of humanistic school design. Storm summarized his ideas together, especially in the writing " Scholae Lauinganae " ( " Lauingische schools ", 1565). From Charles V he was knighted.
The Calvinist storm in 1582 after mediation attempts, fought between the French Huguenots and German Protestants, especially from his Strasbourg Professor colleague Johannes Marbach, but also by Johannes Pappus, Lucas Osiander and Jakob Andreae and finally deposed as rector of the Academy of Strasbourg council.
Writings (selection )
- De literarum ludis recte aperiendis, 1538, and 1543 and 1557
- Partitionum dialecticarum libri II -priority, 1539 ( liber III in 1543; . Liber IV, 1548, also 1571 and 1592)
- De amissa et recuperanda dicendi ratione, 1539
- De amissa dicendi ratione, et quomodo ea recuperanda sit, libri duo, Strasbourg oJ
- Edition of Cicero, 1540 ff (another after Naugerius and Victorius in 9 vols. 1557)
- Prolegomena ( Praefationes ), 1541
- De nobilitate literata 1549
- Leges scholae lauinganae, 1565
- Epistolae academicae, 1569
- De formis orationis, 1571
- Imitation oratoria, 1574
- De exercitationibus rhetoricis, 1575
- De universa ratione Elocutionis Rhetoricae, libri IV, 1576
- Platonis Gorgias aut de rhetorica, Strasbourg 1541 ( in De ratione atque interrogandi collocandi dialectica ad Iacobum Bonerum ); next to comments to the rhetoric of Cicero, Aristotle, Hermogenes among others