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Thomas Linacre , English humanist scholar
*Linacre College, Oxford
*Linacre, Derbyshire
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Linacre — Thomas Linacre Thomas Linacre Thomas Linacre (ou Lynaker) (né vers 1460 à Brampton dans le Derbyshire – † le 20 décembre 1524) est un médecin et un humaniste anglais, fondateur du College of Physicians de Londres (1518) qui est sans doute la plus … Wikipédia en Français
Linacre — Thomas Linacre (auch: Lynaker) (* 1460; † 20. Dezember 1524) war ein englischer Arzt, Mathematiker und Gelehrter. Er gilt als der Begründer des Humanismus in England. Nach ihm ist das Linacre College in Oxford benannt. Leben Thomas Linacre Er… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Linacre — Found in a wide variety of spellings, which in itself reflects the unusual background to the name, Linacre, Linaker, Lineker etc. is of Anglo Saxon origins. The name describes an area of ground, (acer) used for flax growing (lin), and this was a… … Surnames reference
Linacre Road railway station — was a station located on the North Mersey Branch It opened on 1 June 1906. It closed on 2 April 1951, the track however is still in place though no longer electrified.External links* [http://www.disused stations.org.uk/l/linacre road Linacre Road … Wikipedia
Linacre, Thomas — • English physician and clergyman, founder of the Royal College of Physicians, London, b. at Canterbury about 1460; d. in London, 20 October, 1524 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 … Catholic encyclopedia
Linacre College, Oxford — Oxford College Infobox name = Linacre College university = Oxford shield = picture = primary colour = black colours = named for = Thomas Linacre name Latin = established = 1962 sister college = Hughes Hall, Cambridge head name = Principal head =… … Wikipedia
Linacre Chair of Zoology — The Linacre Chair of Zoology in the University of Oxford was founded in 1857, initially as the Linacre Professorship of Physiology and then as the chair of Human and Comparative Anatomy, although its origins can be traced back a further 300 years … Wikipedia
LINACRE, Thomas — (c. 1460 1524) A principal figure of late fifteenth and sixteenth century English humanism, Thomas Linacre was a proponent of Greek scholarship as a means of recovering the medical knowledge of antiquity. A lack of documentary evidence leaves… … Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
Linacre, Thomas — born с 1460, Canterbury, Kent, Eng. died Oct. 20, 1524, London English physician and classical scholar. Elected a fellow at Oxford in 1484, he became one of the first propagators of the humanist New Learning in England; his students included… … Universalium
Linacre, Thomas — (ca. 1460 1524) English humanist and physician. He grew up in Canterbury and studied at Oxford before going to Florence (1487 1493), where he studied classical languages under Demetrius Chalcondyles and Angelo Poliziano. He then took a medical … Historical Dictionary of Renaissance
