Reuchlin

And my dear friends Andrea Buchman and Hans Reuchlin provided me with invaluable support and encouragement throughout the entire process.

The Shadow Market Eric J.Weiner 2010

Erasmus and Montaigne are the ideal types; the Renaissance humanist, with his motto humani nil a me alienum puto, belongs to the species almost by birthright—More, Castiglione, Vives, Reuchlin, Sidney.

The fox’s apology 2009

Reuchlin minimized the value of the ancient Platonists and the other non-Christian prisci theologi, confining his concept of ancient wisdom mainly to works in the Jewish and Christian religious traditions, though he was also influenced by Ficino and Pico.

Loss of Faith 2009

Reuchlin claimed that Cabalistic manipulation of the Hebrew letters of the ineffable name of God, IHVH, produced a five-letter name, IHSVH, or Jesus, which was the true name of God and conferred on its user powers that were divine in origin, far above the power of nature.

Loss of Faith 2009

Erasmus and Montaigne are the ideal types; the Renaissance humanist, with his motto humani nil a me alienum puto, belongs to the species almost by birthright—More, Castiglione, Vives, Reuchlin, Sidney.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

Reuchlin and other masters of this new syncretism looked back to Pico as their model; German theologians and biblical scholars were still debating his theses when the young Immanuel Kant began teaching in Königsberg.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copenhaver, Brian 2008

His sympathy for Reuchlin irritated many of his new colleagues, and enthusiastic young German humanists who supported Reuchlin associated his cause with Erasmus, mentioned Erasmus as a foe of the Cologne Dominicans, and even published some friendly private letters that he had written to Reuchlin, commiserating (very cautiously) with his troubles.

Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

These derivatives probably stem from the revival of interest in the Cabala in men of whom Pico della Mirandola and Reuchlin were the most important.

MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM GEORGE BOAS 1968

Ficino, Reuchlin, and Agrippa von Nettesheim (espe - cially the latter), cast doubt upon previous claims to knowledge.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RICHARD H. POPKIN 1968

In 1513 Conrad Mudt (Mutianus Rufus, supporter of Reuchlin and friend of Melanchthon) saw and heard Georg Faust at Erfurt; he wrote to a fellow humanist that this “immoderate and Foolish braggart,” calling himself the “demigod from Heidelberg,” before astonished listeners “talked nonsense at the inn.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968