Rodolphus Agricola
Rodolphus Agricola (; August 28, 1443, or February 17, 1444 – October 27, 1485) was a Dutch
humanist of the Northern
Low Countries, famous for his knowledge of
Latin and
Greek. He was an educator, musician, builder of church
organs, a poet in Latin and the vernacular, a diplomat, a
boxer and a
Hebrew scholar towards the end of his life. Today, he is best known as the author of ''De inventione dialectica'', the father of Northern European humanism and a zealous anti-
scholastic in the late fifteenth century.
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