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| | Johann Reuchlin |
 | | Johann Reuchlin (February 22, 1455 - 1522), German humanist and Hebraist, was born at Pforzheim in the Black Forest, where his father was an official of the Dominican monastery. |
 | | At Basel[?] Reuchlin took his master's degree (1477), and began to lecture with success, teaching a more classical Latin than was then common in German schools, and also explaining Aristotle in Greek. |
 | | His studies in this language had been continued at Basel under Andronicus Contoblacas[?], and here too he formed the acquaintance of the bookseller, Johann Amorbach, for whom he prepared a Latin lexicon (Vocabularius Breviloquus, 1st ed, 1475-76), which did good service in its time and ran through many editions. |
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