Reading master

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With reading champion , also Leszmeister or Lesmeister , Latin lector (claustri) , were referred to in the Middle Ages and in modern times a teacher of theology and philosophy in a monastery or a convent school . Even in the non-monastic area, a professor at a university was sometimes referred to as a reading master .

Reading masters often had other management tasks in the monasteries, the office of reading master could be a gateway to higher offices. Through their education and literary studies, reading masters also appeared as historians, mediators in important disputes and, during the Reformation, as authors of pamphlets and biblical interpretations.

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  1. Reading Master, 3). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).