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See also:JOACHIM HEINRICH See also:CAMPE (1746-1818) , See also:German educationist, was See also:born at Deensen in See also:Brunswick in 1746 . He studied See also:theology at the university of See also:Halle, and after acting for some See also:time as See also:chaplain at See also:Potsdam, he accepted a See also:post as director of studies in the Philanthropin at See also:Dessau (see See also:BASEDOW) . He soon after set up an educational See also:establishment of his own at Trittow, near See also:Hamburg, which he was obliged to give up to one of his assistants within a few years, in consequence of feeble See also:health . In 1787 he proceeded to Brunswick as counsellor of See also:education, and See also:purchased the Schulbuchhandlung, which under his direction became a most prosperous business . He died in 1818 . His numerous educational See also:works were widely used throughout See also:Germany . Among the most popular were the Kleine Kinderbibliothek (11th ed., 18r5); See also:Robinson der Jiingere (59th ed., 186,), translated into See also:English and into nearly every See also:European See also:language; and SamritticheKinder- and Jugendschriften, 37 vols . |
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