TY - JOUR N2 - School textbooks written by a Spanish erudite and pedagogue Juan Luis Vives were used in schools of Protestant denominations in Royal Prussia – in Gdańsk, Toruń, Elbląg, but also in other towns and cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth– for teaching Latin. Nicolaus Volckmar, of German descent, a Polis language teacher at the Academic Gymnasium in Gdańsk, utilized the structure and themes of Vives’ dialogues Exercitatio linguae latinae (1538) for teaching the Polish language. In this manner, paradoxically, the “phrasebook” of the Spanish humanist, as well as its subsequent editions, still in the 18th century was used by Gdańsk schoolers of German origin to learn the language which they needed for everyday communication in the community of multi-cultural and multi-ethnic Gdańsk. The Vives-Volckmar phrasebook was undoubtedly used by Arnold von Holten, later a lifetime mayor of the city, sent on a diplomatic mission to Spain by the Hanseatic League. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/112782/PDF/N%23219-08-Partyka.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/112782 PY - 2019 IS - No 2 EP - 133 DO - 10.24425/nauka.2019.129235 KW - Juan Luis Vives KW - Nicolaus Volckmar KW - school textbooks KW - phrasebook KW - seventeenth-century Gdańsk KW - meetings of cultures A1 - Partyka, Joanna PB - Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN DA - 2019.05.23 T1 - Different languages, different nations, common humanistic tradition: meetings of cultures in seventeenth-century Gdańsk SP - 125 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/112782 T2 - Nauka ER -