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===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>
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