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See also:AGRICOLA, RODOLPHUS (properly ROELOF HUYSMANN) (1443-1485) , Dutch See also:scholar, was See also:born at Baflo, near. See also:Groningen, in 1443. He was educated at See also:Louvain, where he graduated as See also:master of arts. After residing for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Paris, he went in 1476 to See also:Ferrara in See also:Italy, and attended the lectures of the celebrated See also:Theodorus See also:Gaza (1400-1478) on the See also:Greek See also:language. Having visited See also:Pavia and See also:Rome, he returned to his native See also:country about 1479, and was soon afterwards appointed See also:syndic of Groningen. In 1482, on the invitation of Johann von See also:Dalberg, See also:bishop of See also:Worms (1445-1503), whose friendship he See also:hai gained in Italy, he accepted a professorship at See also:Heidelberg, and for three years delivered lectures there and at Worms on the literature of See also:Greece and Rome. By his See also:personal See also:influence much more than by his writings he did much for the promotion of learning in See also:Germany; and See also:Erasmus and other critics of the See also:generation immediately succeeding his own are full of his praises. In his opposition to the scholastic See also:philosophy he in some degree anticipated the See also:great intellectual revolution in which many of his pupils were conspicuous actors. He died at Heidelberg on the 28th of See also:October 1485. His See also:principal See also:work is De inventione dialectica, libri iii., in which he attempts to See also:change the scholastic philosophy of the See also:day. .
See T. F. Tresling, Vita et Merita Rudolphi Agricolae (Groningen, 1830) ; v. Bezold, R. Agricola (Munchen, 1884) ; and Ihm, Der Humanist R. Agricola, sein Leben and See also:seine Schriften (Paderb., 1893).
End of Article: AGRICOLA, RODOLPHUS (properly ROELOF HUYSMANN) (1443-1485)
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