Alexander Hegius

Alexander Hegius (born c. 1433, Heek, Westphalia [Germany]—died Dec. 7, 1498, Deventer, Neth.) was a German schoolmaster who is remembered both for his effective promotion of the new humanism and for the subsequent fame of his pupils. His long teaching career included the directorship of schools in Wessel, Emmerich, and Deventer, where Erasmus and the future pope Adrian VI were among his pupils. While at Deventer (1483–98), the first school north of the Alps to...