Grace, Talent, and Merit
Subtitle: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 27, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780521525145
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Social classes; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; History; History: World; Europe; Germany; Europe - General; General; Education-General; Educational sociology--Germany--History--18th; Educational sociology--Germany--History--18th century; History / Europe / General
First sentence: The Lutheran university in Wittenberg was in danger of extinction, one of its professors acknowledged in 1801; but it could still take pride in the fact that Martin Luther's room in the ancient Augustinian cloister might have been the scene of the "first thoughts of Reformation."