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Earlier versions of one novel included scenes of this character’s career as a theologian acquainted with Johann Albrecht Bengel, whom he later discusses with a Benedictine historian as part of a mission from Dubois. This character’s largest professional triumph comes with the assistance of his friend Fritz Tegularius and is based on what he learned when studying the I Ching in the Elder Brother’s grove. “Lives” written by this successor of (*) Thomas van der Trave depict him as an early Christian hermit and a self-sacrificing rainmaker. This character drowns when swimming (10[1])after his pupil Tito Designori, whose tutor he became after resigning from his role in the Pedagogical Province of Castalia. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this protagonist of Hermann Hesse’s novel The Glass Bead (10[1])Game. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Joseph Knecht [or Joseph Knecht; or Josephus; accept Magister Ludi]
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