!!!Chyträus, David eigentlich D. Kochhafe

b. Ingelfingen (Germany), Feb. 26, 1531, 
d. Rostock (Germany), June 25, 1600, Protestant theologian and 
reformer of the educational system; exerted a strong influence upon 
Lutheranism with his collections of rules governing church life in 
Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and Goerz (Gorizia). In 
Graz founded a new type of school for the nobility extending from the 
elementary level up to training in rhetoric and law - the so-called 
"Landschaftsschule" - based upon his new rules for Protestant schools.

!Literature
P. F. Barton, Um Luthers Erbe, in: Untersuchungen zur 
Kirchengeschichte 6, 1972.



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