William Bathe
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William Bathe (1564–17 June 1614) was a Jesuit priest, born in Dublin, Ireland.[1]
Bathe was a native of Drumcondra Castle, County Dublin, and a brother of John Bathe, an Irish representative at the Royal Court in Madrid in the early 1600's..
William was trainsed as a musicologist and linguist at Oxford.
He taught languages in Europe and was the author of one of the world's first language teaching texts, juxtaposing words to their pictures Janua Linguarum [in English: The Door of Tongues]. It proved so popular that it was translated into nine languages within twenty years. The Czech educator Comenius based his work Janua Linguarum Reserata on this text.
For a period of time he was Director of the Irish College in Salamanca.
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