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== '''Biography''' ==
== '''Biography''' ==
Roger Ascham was born 1515 in Yorkshire. In 1930 he went to Cambridge.
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Roger Ascham was born 1515 in Yorkshire. In 1930 he went to Cambridge.





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Roger Ascham (1515-1568), writer and tutor of Elizabeth I


Biography

Roger Ascham was born 1515 in Yorkshire. In 1930 he went to Cambridge.



Works

Texophilus (1545)

His most famous work The Schoolmaster, published in 1570, deals with the proper education of children. Pupils shoud learn English and Latin...



Sources

Erlebach, Peter, Bernard Reitz und Thomas Michael Stein, Geschichte der englischen Literatur, Reclam: Stuttgart, 2007, p.505/506.



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