Like many of his educated contemporaries, the German pedagogue, linguist, theologian, and publisher Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818) welcomed the French Revolution as the fulfillment of the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and democracy. As a writer and publisher, Campe molded these ideals into concrete blueprints for societal reform. As a school inspector in Braunschweig (1786-1805), he reformed the principality’s school system and published a series of pedagogical texts, Allgemeine Revision des gesamten Schul- und Erziehungswesens [General Revision of the Entire School and Educational System] (16. vols., 1785-11). He also published a complete edition of his papers on educating children and adolescents, Sämtliche Kinder-und Jugendschriften [Collected Writings on Children and Youth] (1806-09), in which he espoused the educational and social ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. In 1792, the French government declared Campe an honorary citizen of the French Revolution.