Magister

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Magister may refer to:

• The Magister academic degrees

Positions or titles

• A Magister officiorum (Master of offices), a civilian post of the Roman Empire
• A Magister equitum, or Master of the Horse
• A Magister militum, a Master of the Soldiers
• A Magister palatii (Master of the Sacred Palace), a Roman Curial position usually entrusted to a Dominican priest

Airplanes

• The Fouga Magister, a French training aircraft
• The Miles Magister, a British training aircraft

Animals

• The Neotoma magister, a type of Pack rat
• The Magister Armhook Squid

People

• Magister Wigbold, a 14th century German pirate
• Thomas Magister, a 14th century Byzantine monk and scholar
• Dositheus Magister, a 4th century Roman scholar

Other

• Magister Ludi, an alternate title for Herman Hesse's novel The Glass Bead Game