CORDERIUS

corderius, the latinized form of name used by mathurin cordier (c. 1480-1564), french schoolmaster, a native of normandy or perche. he possessed special tact and liking for teaching children, and taught first at paris, where calvin was among his pupils, and, after a number of changes, finally at geneva, where he died on the 8th of september 1564. 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 syllabarum quantitate_; _conciones sacrae viginti sex galliae_; _catonis disticha de moribus_ (with latin and french translation); _remontrances et exhortations au roi et aux grands de son royaume_. see monograph by e. a. berthault, _de m. corderio et creatis apud protestantes litterarum studiis_ (1875).