AGRICOLA, RODOLPHUS (properly ROELOF HUYS MANN) Dutch scholar, was born at Baflo near Groningen, Aug. 23 1443. He was educated at Louvain, Paris, and at Ferrara, where he attended the lectures of the celebrated Theodorus Gaza (1400-78) on the Greek language. In 1482, on the invitation of Johann von Dalberg, bishop of Worms 1503 ), he accepted a professorship at Heidelberg, and for three years delivered lectures there and at Worms on the literature of Greece and Rome. By his personal influence much more than by his writings he did much for the renaissance of learning in Ger many ; and Erasmus and other critics of the generation immedi ately succeeding his own are full of his praises. He died at Heidelberg on Oct. 28 1485. His principal work is De inventione dialectica, libri iii., in which he attacks the scholastic philosophy of the day. His collected works were edited by Alard (Cologne, See T. F. Tresling, Vita et Merita Rudolphi Agricolae (Groningen, 1830) ; v. Bezold, R. Agricola (Munchen, 1884) ; and Ihm, Der Humanist R. Agricola, sein Leben and seine Schriften (Paderb., 1893).