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ALEXANDER See also:HEGIUS [VON REEK] (c. 1433-1498)  , See also:German humanist, so called from his birthplace Heek in See also:Westphalia . In his youth he was a See also:pupil of See also:Thomas a Kempis, at that See also:time See also:canon of the See also:convent of St See also:Agnes at See also:Zwolle . In 1474 he settled down at See also:Deventer in See also:Holland, where he either founded or succeeded to the headship of a school, which became famous for the number of its distinguished alumni . First and foremost of these was See also:Erasmus; others were See also:Hermann von dem Busche, the missionary of See also:humanism, See also:Conrad Goclenius (Gockelen), Conrad Mutianus (Muth von Mudt) and See also:pope See also:Adrian VI . See also:Hegius died at Deventer on the 7th of See also:December 1498 . His writings, consisting of See also:short poems, philosophical essays, grammatical notes and letters, were published after his See also:death by his pupil See also:Jacob See also:Faber . They display considerable knowledge of Latin, but less of See also:Greek, on the value of which he strongly insisted . Hegius's See also:chief claim to be remembered rests not upon his published See also:works, but upon his services in the cause of humanism . He succeeded in abolishing the old-fashioned See also:medieval textbooks and methods of instruction, and led his pupils to the study of the classical authors themselves . His generosity in assisting poor students exhausted a considerable See also:fortune, and at his death he See also:left nothing but his books and clothes . See D . Reichling, " Beitrdge zur Charakteristik See also:des Alex .

Hegius," in the Monatsschrift See also:

fur Westdeutschland (1877); H . Hamelmann, See also:Opera genealogico-historica (1711); H . A . Erhard, Geschichte des Wiederaufbliihens wissenschaftlicher Bildung (1826) ; C . See also:Krafft and W . Crecelius, " See also:Alexander Hegius and See also:seine Schiffer," from the works of Johannes Butzbach, one of Hegius's pupils, in Zeitschrift des bergischen Geschichtsvereins, vii . (See also:Bonn, 1871) .

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