Imbued with ideas of national emancipation taken from the French Revolution and the writings of German intellectuals scholars, writers, clergymen, and schoolmasters of Czech origin began to stir a national consciousness among the common people.
He is called "the father of American copyright law" for his successful campaign to win protection for his writings; "the first historian of epidemic disease" for his pioneering research on yellow fever; and "schoolmaster to America" -- the title of a 1936 biography -- for his enormously influential spelling and reading books.
Jelks is the author of the award-winning African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids and Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography.
Jeff Dolven investigates what it meant for a book to teach as he traces the rivalry between poet and schoolmaster in the works of John Lyly, Philip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton.
I dropped in on a question-and-answer session with the "schoolmaster" of the local school for Indian boys, and heard him matter-of-factly describe their "typically Indian" lack of punctuality, ambition and modesty.
He was a wartime code breaker and schoolmaster, and was the fourth keeper of the royal philatelic collection, from 1969 to 1995.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward". How magnificently — if posthumously — he fulfilled that ideal.
Admissions following the charter also changed, with "none to be admitted scholar into the said school before he be brought to the schoolmaster of that school, and upon his examination shall be found to have learned the rudiments of grammar, called the Accidence".
He recalls his childhood, witnessing the secret folk-worship of the Virgin, and, later, describes his downfall as a "Schoolmaster of Necromancy".
The heir to the experiments of the English caricaturists and the father of the comic strip in its modern sense was Rodolphe Töpffer, a schoolmaster of Geneva who was active in the 1830s and '40s.
