# James Van Horn Melton **Domain:** History of Education / Absolutism **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Prussian Education System]], [[State Legibility]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition Historian whose scholarship examines the eighteenth-century origins of compulsory schooling in Prussia and Austria. ## Kybernetiks Context His work grounds the article’s reading of schooling as part of absolutist state formation rather than a purely humanitarian reform. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]