Conrad Goclenius
Conrad Goclenius (or in German "Conrad Wackers" or "Conrad Gockelen") was a Renaissance humanist, and Latin scholar, and the closest confidant of humanist Desiderius Erasmus, who was born in Mengeringhausen in the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1490, and died in Leuven on 25 January 1539. Life Little is known of his youth, except that as a child he attended the school of humanist Alexander Hegius von Heek in Deventer. In November 1510 he enrolled at the University of Cologne, and later moved on to Old University of Leuven. He became Master of Arts on 10 November 1515, and then supported himself by private teaching. In 1518 he was ordained to an ecclesiastical benefice. In October 1519, he succeeded Adrianus Barlandus as Latin teacher at the Collegium Trilingue, where he taught Jacob Cruucke and Andreas Masius who would later become notable humanists in their own right. He kept this chair until his death in 1539, after which he was succeeded by Petrus Nannius. As a Latin scholar, ...
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Goclenius (other)
Goclenius is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Conrad Goclenius (1490-1539), German humanist * Rudolph Goclenius (1547–1628), German scholastic philosopher * Rudolph Goclenius the Younger (1572–1621), German physician and professor of physics, medicine and mathematics; son of the above ** Goclenius (crater), Goclenius, a lunar crater named after the younger Goclenius {{surname ...
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