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
Could this little unpretending-looking youth be the great scholar Reuchlin had recommended so warmly, and from whose abilities the Elector Frederick expected such great results for his new university?
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
A short time before his death Reuchlin returned to Tübingen, where he closed his illustrious career in 1522.
From History of Education by Seeley, Levi
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 Huizinga, Johan
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