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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” (15[1])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 after his pupil Tito Designori, whose tutor he became after resigning from his role in the Pedagogical Province of Castalia. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Hermann Hesse’s novel The Glass Bead Game. (10[1])■END■

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