Agricola
RUDOLPHUS, an eminent Dutch scholar was born near Groningen, in Friesland, Aug. 23, 1443. His real name, ROELOF HUYSMANN (husbandman), he Latinized into Agricola; and from his native place he was also called Frisius, or Rudolf of Groningen. From Groningen he passed to Louvain, then to Paris, and then to Italy, where, during the years 1473-1480, he attended the lectures of the most celebrated men of his age, and where he entered into a close friendship with Dalberg, afterward Bishop of Worms. Several cities of Holland vainly strove with each other to obtain his presence, but not even the brilliant overtures made to him by the Emperor M Maximilian, to whose court he had repaired in connection with affairs of the town of Groningen, could induce him to renounce his independence. At length yielding (1483) to the solicitations of Dalberg, he established himself in the Palatinate. He died at Heidelberg, Oct. 28, 1485.