biography
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Reuchlin, Johannes
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also known as Kapnion, or Capnio
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pronunciation:
[roykhleen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1455–1522)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Pforzheim, SW Germany. A leading humanist, he was active in the chancellery in Württemberg and professor of Hebrew and Greek literature at various S German universities. He edited classical works, and wrote innovatory neo-Latin scholastic plays (including Henno, 1497) and grammars (De rudimentis hebraicis, 1506). Considered the founder of Christian Hebrew studies, he is probably best known for his pro-humanist and Hebraist stand in the so-called Dunkelmännerstreit, in which he replied with Augenspiegel (1511) to attacks by the baptised Jew Johann Pfefferkorn. |
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