Editing Georgius Agricola (section)

==Early life==

===Youth===
Agricola was born in 1494 as Georg Pawer, the second of seven children of a clothier and dyer in Glauchau. At the age of twelve he enrolled in the Latin school in [[Chemnitz]] or [[Zwickau]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118501062.html#ndbcontent   |title=Agricola, Georgius (Georg Bauer), wahrscheinlich in Zwickau |publisher=Deutsche Biographie | author=Wilhelm Pieper | access-date= April 5, 2019 }}</ref> From 1514 to 1518 he studied at the [[Leipzig University]] where, under the name ''Georgius Pawer de Glauchaw'', he first subscribed in the summer semester to theology, philosophy and philology under rector Nikolaus Apel and to ancient languages, [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] and [[Latin]] in particular. He received his first Latin lectures under [[Petrus Mosellanus]], a celebrated humanist of the time and adherent of [[Erasmus|Erasmus of Rotterdam]].<ref name=hofm>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/drgeorgagricola00hofmgoog/page/n27 |title= Dr. Georg Agricola : ein Gelehrtenleben aus dem Zeitalter der Reformation - p. 9 | publisher = Archive org |author=Reinhold Hofmann  |access-date= April 5, 2019  }}</ref><ref name=mdz>{{cite web|url=http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016233/images/index.html?seite=116 |title= Neue deutsche Biographie, Bd.: 1, Agricola, Georgius  | publisher = Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum |access-date= April 4, 2019  }}</ref>

===Humanist education===
Gifted with a precocious intellect and his freshly acquired title of [[Bachelor of Arts|Baccalaureus artium]], Agricola early threw himself into the pursuit of the "[[new learning]]", with such effect that at the age of 24 he was appointed ''Rector extraordinarius'' of [[Ancient Greek]] at the 1519 established ''Zwickau Greek school'', which was soon to be united with the [[Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau - University of Applied Sciences Zwickau|Great School of Zwickau]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fh-zwickau.de/hochschule/profil/historie/ |title= Geschichte der Westsächsischen Hochschule Zwickau - Georgius Agricola lehrte von 1519 - 1522 in Zwickau  | publisher = Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau |access-date= April 4, 2019  }}</ref> (Zwickauer Ratsschule). In 1520 he published his first book, a Latin grammar manual with practical and methodical hints for teachers. In 1522 he ended his appointment to again study at [[Leipzig]] for another year, where, as rector, he was supported by his former tutor and professor of classics, [[Peter Mosellanus]], with whom he had always been in correspondence.<ref name=hofm/> He also subscribed to the studies of [[medicine]], [[physics]], and [[chemistry]].

In 1523 he traveled to [[Italy]] and enrolled in the [[University of Bologna]] and probably [[University of Padua|Padua]]<ref name=bio/> and completed his studies in medicine. It remains unclear where he acquired his diploma. In 1524 he joined the [[Aldine Press]], a prestigious printing office in [[Venice]]  that was established by [[Aldus Manutius]], who had died in 1515. Manutius had established and maintained contacts and the friendship in a network among the many scholars, including the most celebrated, from all over Europe, whom he had encouraged to come to Venice and take care of the redaction of the numerous publications of the [[Classics|classics of antiquity]]. At the time of Agricola's visit, the business was run by Andrea Torresani and his daughter Maria. Agricola participated in the edition of a work in several volumes on [[Galen]] until 1526.<ref name=mdz/>