Manuel Chrysoloras

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Born	c.1350 • Turkey
Died	April 15, 1415
Subjects Of Study	Greek language • grammar

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George Of Trebizond

Byzantine humanist

Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples

French humanist and theologian

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston

John Ogilby

British printer

Ambrose Of Camaldoli

Italian translator

Leonardo Bruni

Italian scholar

Maximus The Greek

Greek Orthodox monk and scholar

Maximus Planudes

Byzantine scholar and theologian

Didymus Chalkenteros

Greek scholar

Erasmus

Dutch humanist

Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Marsilio Ficino

Italian philosopher and theologian

George Buchanan

Scottish writer and educator

John Scotus Erigena

Irish philosopher

Tyrannius Rufinus

Roman priest and writer

August Schleicher

German linguist

Robert Fitzgerald

American poet

Benjamin Jowett

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Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

Dutch author

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