Corderius

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Corderius is the latinized form of name used by Mathurin Cordier (born c. 1480; died September 8, 1564 in Geneva). He was a French schoolmaster, a native of Normandy or Perche. He possessed special tact and liking for teaching children and taught first at Paris, where John Calvin was among his pupils, and, after a number of changes, finally at Geneva.

He wrote several books for children; the most famous is his Colloquia (Colloquiorum scholasticorum libri quatuor), which has passed through innumerable editions, and was used in schools for three centuries after his time.

He also wrote:

• Principia Latine loquendi scribendique, sive selecta quaedam ex Epistolis Ciceronis
• De Corrupti Sermonis apud Gallos Emendatione et Latine loquendi Ratione
• De Corrupti Sermonis Emendatione Libellus
• De syllabarum quantitate
• Conciones sacrae viginti rex Galliae
• Catonis disticha de moribus (with Latin and French translation)
• Remontrances et exhortations au roi et aux grands de son royaume

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