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Grocyn, William
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Grocyn, William (
c.1449–1519). Cleric and Greek scholar. Grocyn came up from Winchester to Oxford in 1465, and taught in the university in the 1470s–1480s. In March 1488 he went to Florence to improve his Latin and Greek, along with William Latimer and Thomas
Linacre; he also got to know the great Venetian scholar and printer Aldus Manutius. From 1491 Grocyn taught Greek in Oxford. From 1496 he spent more time in his living of St Lawrence Jewry, London; and from 1506 in Maidstone as rector of the College of All Hallows, dying at Maidstone after having been incapacitated by a stroke in 1518. A letter to Aldus is Grocyn's only known publication, but his scholarship was much admired by contemporaries, including Erasmus, who lodged with him. His Oxford Greek lectures were the first given by an Englishman, and he collected a remarkable Latin and Greek library, which reflects forward-looking humanist tastes as well as knowledge of medieval authorities. It is known from Linacre's catalogue of it and from many volumes now in Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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More vividly
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 3/8/1998; ; 650 words
; ...career, we get very little about his brilliant contemporaries, Thomas Linacre, John Colet, Cuthbert Tunstall and William Grocyn, who established an intellectual network across Europe. Ackroyd is very good on More's relationship to scholasticism...
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William Grocyn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Grocyn , 1446?-1519, English humanist. An associate of John Colet and Thomas Linacre , he reputedly introduced the teaching of Greek at Oxford.
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Grocyn, William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Grocyn, William ( c. 1449–1519...Cleric and Greek scholar. Grocyn came up from Winchester...Latin and Greek, along with William Latimer and Thomas Linacre...Aldus Manutius. From 1491 Grocyn taught Greek in Oxford...
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Renaissance
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...1447), were important; later, under Henry VII, William Grocyn and Thomas Linacre won a reputation for Greek. From...Martin Luther for his German New Testament (1521): William Tyndale used both for his English version (1526...
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More, Thomas (1478–1535)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Oxford, where he met such humanists as John Colet, William Grocyn, and Thomas Linacre. Under parental pressure, he...others in his own name, against Luther and against William Tyndale, Simon Fish, and others. At this time also...
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‘humanism’
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...classical writers neglected in the Middle Ages had become appreciated at both Oxford and Cambridge universities. William Grocyn ( c. 1449–1519) introduced Greek studies to Oxford on his return from Italy in 1491. The royal physician...
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