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Rodolphus Agricola. Agricola was born in Baflo in the Dutch province of Groningen as the illegitimate son of the cleric and future abbot Hendrik Vries and Zycka Huesman, a rich farmer's daughter. [2] He was originally named Roelof Huesman, or Huisman, his mother's surname. The Latin adjective Phrisius identifies him as a Frisian.
Rodolphus is a Latin form of the name Rudolf. Notable people with this name include: Real people. Rodolphus Agricola (1443–1485), ... Fictional characters
Alardus took part in the publication of Agricola's De inventione dialectica in 1515, and was editor of a revised edition in Cologne in 1538. [5] His major work was the two-volume collected edition of Agricola of 1539.
An instrument was built in the Martinikerk in the middle of the 15th century; this was expanded in 1479 after the construction of the Gothic tower, probably under the direction of Rodolphus Agricola, Groningen's syndic and a noted humanist. From this late-Gothic instrument, numerous pipes survive today.
Agricola, a genus of birds; Agricola, a 2007 board game by Uwe Rosenberg; 3212 Agricola, an asteroid; Auster Agricola, an aircraft from the 1950s; Agricola (school), a secret NCO school operated by the Grey Ranks during World War II; Agricola Street, a prominent street in the neighbourhood of North End in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Rodolphus Agricola – Canto LXXXIX: quoted on the roles of writing: "ut doceat, ut moveat, ut delectet" ("to teach, to move, to delight"). Leon Battista Alberti – Architect and Renaissance theorist – Canto IX; Albigensian Crusade – Canto XXXIII [17] Alcmene – Mother of Hercules – Canto XC [18] [19]
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Rudolph Fentz, focal character of "I'm Scared", a 1952 science fiction short story by Jack Finney, which was later reported as a real person in an urban legend; Rudolph "Rudy" Hatfield, American-Filipino retired professional basketball player; Rudulph Evans, sculptor from Washington, D.C., who grew up in Virginia