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Rodolphus Agricola

1443 - 1485

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Rodolphus Agricola (Latin: Rudolphus Agricola Phrisius; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rodolphus Agricola is the 440th most popular philosopher (up from 512th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 207th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Rodolphus Agricola ranks 440 out of 1,267. Before him are Moses Hess, Thomas Cajetan, Gautama Maharishi, Peter Sloterdijk, Eudemus of Rhodes, and Shah Waliullah Dehlawi. After him are Chantal Mouffe, Gershom Scholem, Christian Thomasius, Zhiyi, Ernesto Laclau, and Martha Nussbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1443, Rodolphus Agricola ranks 7. Before him are Pope Julius II, Donato Bramante, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Matthias Corvinus, Askia Mohammad I, and Magdalena of France. After him are Albert III, Duke of Saxony, Girolamo Riario, Pedro Arias Dávila, Piero del Pollaiolo, Gilbert, Count of Montpensier, and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1485, Rodolphus Agricola ranks 3. Before him are Richard III of England, and Anne Neville. After him are Giovanni Mocenigo, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Abu'l-Hasan Ali of Granada, John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, and Vuk Grgurević.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Rodolphus Agricola ranks 160 out of 1,646. Before him are Maarten van Heemskerck (1498), Corry Brokken (1932), Jeroen Krabbé (1944), Willy van de Kerkhof (1951), Frederick de Houtman (1571), and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (1948). After him are Rachel Ruysch (1664), Bert van Marwijk (1952), Roméo Dallaire (1946), Martinus Beijerinck (1851), Gustav Leonhardt (1928), and Pieter Lastman (1583).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Netherlands

Among philosophers born in Netherlands, Rodolphus Agricola ranks 4. Before him are Baruch Spinoza (1632), Erasmus (1466), and Jacobus Arminius (1560). After him are Jacob Moleschott (1822), Dirck Coornhert (1522), Marsilius of Inghen (1335), Thomas van Erpe (1584), and Bas van Fraassen (1941).

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