Rodolphus Agricola

Rudolf Agricola, even Rudolph ( us) Agricola, origin. Roelof Huysman, (* February 17, 1444 (or August 23, 1443 ) in Baflo Groningen, † October 27, 1485 in Heidelberg ) was a Dutch writer and early humanist scholar.

Life

Agricola studied from 1456 to 1465 in Erfurt and lions, from 1469 to 1479 in Ferrara and Pavia. Then he stayed in Ferrara at the court of Duke Ercole I d' Este. 1482 he was a representative of the city of Groningen in the court of Emperor Maximilian I in 1483 called him Johann von Dalberg, Bishop of Worms and Palatine Chancellor to Heidelberg, where in free communication with the then already almost a hundred years existing university lectures on Greek and Roman he held literature and Hebrew. Among his students was the future poet laureate Konrad Celtis Erzhumanist and later, on his own initiative in 1491 Sodalitas litteraria Rhenaniastraße, the Rhenish Association for Science in Heidelberg took her spiritual center.

Work

Agricola translated many Greek works into Latin and advocated for the study of antiquity. His major work, " De inventione Dialectics " ( "On the dialectical method of thought " ) was published in 1515 in three volumes. 1539 was Alardus of Amsterdam a selection of his writings with the title " Rudolphi agricolae lucubrationes " ( "Rudolph Agricola's night work").

Rudolf Agricola operated next to his humanist work as organist and organ expert in Groningen and Ferrara. So his advice was sought for the construction of a new organ for the church in Groningen Martini ( 1479 ) and Kampen (1480 ).