Reuchlin

American  

[roikh-leen, roikh-leen] / ˈrɔɪx lin, rɔɪxˈlin /

noun

1. Johann 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.

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Reuchlin British  

/ ˈrɔyçliːn /

noun

1. Johann (joˈhan). 1455–1522, German humanist, who promoted the study of Greek and Hebrew

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Example Sentences

But Reuchlin, who corrected St Jerome, naturally thought he had got nearer to the spirit of the scriptures, and so to their author himself: “God wished his secrets to be known to mortal man through Hebrew.”

From Economist

There were two older Wright brothers, Reuchlin and Lorin, and a younger sister, Katharine, a graduate of Oberlin College and a high school Latin teacher.

From Washington Post

The persecution of John Reuchlin, like that of John of Wesel, sprang from scholastic antagonisms, but its development shows how completely, during the interval, the inquisitorial power had wasted away.

From Project Gutenberg

Reuchlin was a pupil of John Wessel of Groningen; as the leader of the Humanists, and the foremost representative in Germany of the new learning, he was involved in bitter controversy with the Dominicans, who, as traditional Thomists, were ready to do battle to the death for scholasticism.

From Project Gutenberg

When, therefore, Reuchlin stood forward to protect Jews and Jewish literature against the assaults of the renegade Pfefferkorn, the opportunity to destroy him was eagerly seized.

From Project Gutenberg