Reuchlin
Americannoun
noun
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The emperor sought a second opinion from Johannes Reuchlin, a linguist in Stuttgart, who decided that Hebrew was a biblical tongue worth preserving.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2010
Besides, Reuchlin wrote, if Hebrew texts were all erased, “the Jews might well write much stranger stuff from scratch, far more objectionable.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2010
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 A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
Several scholars, Reuchlin among others, had assisted in the undertaking when Erasmus offered himself and all his material.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga
At present war was being waged in a much wider field: for or against Reuchlin, the great Hebrew scholar, for whom the authors of the Epistolae obscurorum virorum had so sensationally taken up the cudgels.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga
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