Rudolph Agricola

This article is about the humanist scholar. For other people with this name see Agricola (disambiguation). Rodolphus Agricola (Phrisius) (February 17, 1444 –  October 27, 1485): pre-Erasmian humanist of the northern Low Countries; famous for his supple Latin; one of the first north of the Alps to know Greek well; Hebrew scholar towards the end of his life; educator, musician and builder of a church organ; poet in Latin as well as the vernacular; diplomat; and a sportsman of sorts (boxing). He is best known today as the author of De inventione dialectica, as the father of northern European humanism and as a zealous anti-scholastic in the late fifteenth century.
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