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SAMUEL HARTLIB (c. 1599–c. 1670)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 36 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:HARTLIB (c. 1599–c. 1670)  , See also:English writer on See also:education and agriculturist, was See also:born towards the See also:close of the 16th See also:century at See also:Elbing in See also:Prussia, his See also:father being a refugee See also:merchant from See also:Poland . His See also:mother was the daughter of a See also:rich-English merchant at See also:Danzig . About 1628 See also:Hartlib went to See also:England, where he carried on a See also:mercantile agency, and at the same See also:time found leisure to enter with See also:interest into the public questions of the See also:day . An enthusiastic admirer of See also:Comenius, he published in 1637 his Conatuum Comenianorum praeludia, and in 1639 Comenii pansophiae prodromus et didactica dissertatio . In 1641 appeared his Relation of that which hath been lately attempted to procure Ecclesiastical See also:Peace among Protestants, and the A Description of Macaria, containing his ideas of what a See also:model f See also:state should be . During the See also:civil See also:war Hartlib occupied himself with the peaceful study of See also:agriculture, See also:publishing various See also:works by himself, and See also:printing at his own expense several See also:treatises by others on the subject . In 1652 he issued a second edition of the Discourse of See also:Flanders Husbandry by See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Weston (1645); and in 1651 See also:Samuel Hartlib, his See also:Legacy, or an Enlargement of the Discourse of Husbandry used in See also:Brabant and Flanders, by See also:Robert See also:Child . For his various labours Hartlib received from See also:Cromwell a See also:pension of £roo, afterwards increased to £3oo, as he had spent all his See also:fortune on his experiments . He planned a school for the sons of gentlemen, to be conducted on new principles, and this probably was the occasion of his friend See also:Milton's Tractate on Education, addressed to him in 1644, and of Sir See also:William See also:Petty's Two Letters on the same subject, in 1647 and 1648 . At the Restoration Hartlib lost his pension, which had already fallen into arrears; he petitioned See also:parliament for a new See also:grant of it, but what success he met with is unknown, as his latter years and See also:death are wrapped in obscurity . A See also:letter from him is known to have been written in See also:February 1661–1662, and apparently he is referred to by See also:Andrew Marvell as alive in 167o and fleeing to See also:Holland from his creditors . A See also:Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib, by H .

Dircks, appeared in 1865 .

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