See also:ALEXANDER See also:HEGIUS [VON REEK] (c. 1433-1498)
, See also:German humanist, so called from his birthplace Heek in See also:Westphalia
.
In his youth he was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas a Kempis, at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:canon of the See also:convent of St See also:Agnes at See also:Zwolle
.
In 1474 he settled down at See also:Deventer in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, where he either founded or succeeded to the headship of a school, which became famous for the number of its distinguished alumni
.
First and foremost of these was See also:Erasmus; others were See also:Hermann von dem Busche, the missionary of See also:humanism, See also:Conrad Goclenius (Gockelen), Conrad Mutianus (Muth von Mudt) and See also:pope See also:Adrian VI
.
See also:Hegius died at Deventer on the 7th of See also:December 1498
.
His writings, consisting of See also:short poems, philosophical essays, grammatical notes and letters, were published after his See also:death by his pupil See also:Jacob See also:Faber
.
They display considerable knowledge of Latin, but less of See also:Greek, on the value of which he strongly insisted
.
Hegius's See also:chief claim to be remembered rests not upon his published See also:works, but upon his services in the cause of humanism
.
He succeeded in abolishing the old-fashioned See also:medieval textbooks and methods of instruction, and led his pupils to the study of the classical authors themselves
.
His generosity in assisting poor students exhausted a considerable See also:fortune, and at his death he See also:left nothing but his books and clothes
.
See D
.
Reichling, " Beitrdge zur Charakteristik See also:des Alex
.
Hegius," in the Monatsschrift See also:fur Westdeutschland (1877); H
.
Hamelmann, See also:Opera genealogico-historica (1711); H
.
A
.
Erhard, Geschichte des Wiederaufbliihens wissenschaftlicher Bildung (1826) ; C
.
See also:Krafft and W
.
Crecelius, " See also:Alexander Hegius and See also:seine Schiffer," from the works of Johannes Butzbach, one of Hegius's pupils, in Zeitschrift des bergischen Geschichtsvereins, vii
.
(See also:Bonn, 1871)
.
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