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Reuchlin

[ roikh-leen, roikh-leen ]

noun

  1. Jo·hann [yoh, -hahn], 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.


Reuchlin

/ ˈrɔyçliːn /

noun

  1. ReuchlinJohann14551522MGermanPHILOSOPHY: humanist Johann (joˈhan). 1455–1522, German humanist, who promoted the study of Greek and Hebrew
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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.”

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.

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.

Unlike John of Wesel, however, Reuchlin felt that he could safely appeal to Rome, where Leo X. was himself a man of culture and a Humanist.

Reuchlin was declared free of all suspicion of heresy, the prosecution was pronounced frivolous, and the costs were put upon Hochstraten, with a threat of excommunication for disobedience.

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