Confabulationes Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525)The humanist Hermann Schotten, or Hermannus Schottennius Hessus (c. 1503 1546), student, schoolmaster, and university lecturer in Cologne, was the author of a number of works on humanist pedagogy. His *Confabulationes tironum litterariorum* of 1525, a collection of Latin dialogues designed to help schoolboys master Classical Latin conversation, was written in admiring imitation of the colloquies of Erasmus. But Schotten had his own distinctive style: