The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century.

Name: The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century.
Author: Thomas Platter

by Thomas Platter

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive

Release date

2010-10-15

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Platter, Thomas, 1499-1582 Educators -- Switzerland -- Biography Education -- Switzerland -- History -- 16th century

About the author

Thomas Platter

1499–1582

A shepherd’s son who taught himself his way into the world of Renaissance learning, he became known for one of the era’s most vivid autobiographical life stories. His journey from deep poverty to the humanist circles of Basel still feels remarkably immediate and alive.

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