GEORG HEINRICH GOETZE: PRINCEPS GRAECE DOCTUS, JUVENTUTI SCHOLASTICAE IN PHRONTISTERIO LUBECENSI LITERAS GRAECAS DISCENTI. LEIPZIG 1704 First edition, in large 8vo, later, most probably 19th century, leather over boards, right edge of title page slightly trimmed, text clean and bright, complete 134p., overall in very good condition. A landmark publication on education in Greek, at the very first stage of the enlightenment. This manual of early 18th century established a completely new approach in the teaching of the Greek language. Georg Heinrich Götze was a prominent German scholar and superintendent who lived from 1667 to 1728.The book was written for the students at the Phrontisterium (a Greek term for a place of study ) in Lübeck, Germany. It is a scholarly exhortation and educational guide. Götze wrote it to encourage students to learn the Greek language with a revolutionary, for its time,new method. The impact was so great in the Greek Enlightenment later that the term Phrontistirion remain and is still in use. The edition also includes contributions from other scholars, as Johann Conrad Dieterich who provided two programs describing the restoration of Greek letters and Johann Zwinger who included an inaugural oration regarding the barbarism that results from a lack of correct knowledge of the Greek language.Götze was a highly prolific academic with a vast number of publications,he wrote over 150 works. In the early 18th century, German scholars were deeply concerned with Humanism,the idea that a truly educated person (or a "Prince", as the title of the book is the Prince learn Greek) must be proficient in the two main languages: Latin and Greek. Götze’s work was part of a pedagogical movement This pedagogical reform will lead to the Enlightement. A very inflencial linguistic and pedagogical book of Greek.