Agricola
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- Agricola (consul 421) (born 365), Western Roman statesman
- Agricola (vir inlustris)Agricola (vir inlustris)- Biography :Agricola was the son of Avitus, and therefore the brother of Ecdicius and Papianilla. His grandfather was probably the Agricola consul in 421. Agricola was related to the poet Sidonius Apollinaris, who married Papianila, and with Ruricius of Limonges, who was his father-in-law. He...
, son of the Western Roman Emperor Avitus - Saints Vitalis and AgricolaSaints Vitalis and AgricolaSaints Vitalis and Agricola are venerated as martyrs, who are considered to have died at Bologna about 304, during the persecution ordered by Roman Emperor Diocletian.-Legend:...
(died 304), martyrs - Saint Agricola of Avignon (630–700), bishop of Avignon
- Gnaeus Julius AgricolaGnaeus Julius AgricolaGnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain. His biography, the De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him.Born to a noted...
(40–93), Roman governor of Britannia (AD 77-85) - Julia AgricolaJulia AgricolaJulia Agricola was the daughter of Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola and Domitia Decidiana, a lady of illustrious birth. Shortly after her birth her elder brother, who was just a young child, died. She had another brother, born in 83, who also died in infancy.In 78, at the age of fourteen,...
(born 64), wife of Tacitus - Sextus Calpurnius AgricolaSextus Calpurnius AgricolaSextus Calpurnius Agricola was a Roman general and politician of the 2nd century.Calpurnius Agricola was governor of Germania Superior around 158....
, Roman governor of the mid second century AD - Alexander AgricolaAlexander AgricolaAlexander Agricola was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A prominent member of the Grande chapelle, the Habsburg musical establishment, he was a renowned composer in the years around 1500, and his music was widely distributed throughout Europe...
(1446–1506), Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance - Christoph Ludwig AgricolaChristoph Ludwig AgricolaChristoph Ludwig Agricola was a German landscape painter. He was born and died at Regensburg .He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples.His numerous landscapes, chiefly cabinet pictures, are...
(1667-1719), German landscape painter - Georg AgricolaGeorg AgricolaGeorgius Agricola was a German scholar and scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy", he was born at Glauchau in Saxony. His real name was Georg Pawer; Agricola is the Latinised version of his name, Pawer meaning "farmer"...
(1494-1555), German scholar and scientist - Georg Andreas AgricolaGeorg Andreas AgricolaGeorg Andreas Agricola or Georgio Andrea Agricola or Georg Andreas Bauer or George André Agricola was a German physician and botanist from Regensburg....
(1672-1738), German physician and naturalist - Ignaz AgricolaIgnaz AgricolaIgnaz Agricola was a German Jesuit.Agricola was born in Zusamaltheim in the Bishopric of Augsburg. He entered the Jesuit order on September 28, 1677, and studied in Jesuit schools, philosophy for three years and theology for four years...
(1661–1729), German Jesuit - Johann Friedrich AgricolaJohann Friedrich AgricolaJohann Friedrich Agricola was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio.-Biography:...
(1720-1774), German composer - Johannes AgricolaJohannes AgricolaJohannes Agricola was a German Protestant reformer and humanist. He was a follower and friend of Martin Luther, who became his antagonist in the matter of the binding obligation of the law on Christians.-Early life:Agricola was born at Eisleben, whence he is sometimes called Magister Islebius...
(1494-1566), German scholar and theologian, an antinomian - Stephan AgricolaStephan AgricolaStephan Agricola was a Lutheran church reformer. Born in Abensberg, at a young age he joined the Augustinian order. As a monk, he studied Augustine deeply. As a student, he went to the universities in Bologna and Venice, where in 1519 he became a Doctor of Theology. He began to preach on whole...
, also Kastenpaur, (1491–1547), German scholar and theologian, formerly an Augustinian monk - Martin AgricolaMartin AgricolaMartin Agricola was a German composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist.He was born in Schwiebus in Lower Silesia. His German name was Sohr or Sore....
(1486-1556), German composer and music theorist of the Renaissance - Mikael AgricolaMikael AgricolaMikael Agricola was a clergyman who became the de facto founder of written Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden . He is often called the "father of the Finnish written language". Agricola was consecrated as the bishop of Turku in 1554, without papal approval...
(1510-1557), Finnish theologian and reformer - Philipp AgricolaPhilipp AgricolaPhilipp Agricola was a German poet and dramatist.Agricola was born in Eisleben, and is assumed to have been the son of Johannes Agricola. He was in Berlin by 1571, where he wrote poetry and dramas about Brandenburg's ruling family; his drama Jüngste Gericht satirized the Junkers and court clergy....
(16th c.), German poet and dramatist - Rodolphus AgricolaRodolphus AgricolaRodolphus Agricola was a pre-Erasmian humanist of the northern Low Countries, famous for his supple Latin and one of the first north of the Alps to know Greek well...
(1443-1485), Dutch scholar and humanist
Other uses
- Agricola, MississippiAgricola, MississippiAgricola is an unincorporated community in George County, Mississippi, United States.Agricola is home to Agricola Elementary School . There are two gas stations, a fire department, and a hardware store....
- Agricola (book)Agricola (book)The Agricola is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus, written c 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general. It also covers, briefly, the geography and ethnography of ancient Britain...
, a biography of Julius AgricolaGnaeus Julius AgricolaGnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain. His biography, the De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him.Born to a noted...
by TacitusTacitusPublius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors... - Agricola (database), a database of scientific papers
- Agricola (vehicles)Agricola (vehicles)Agricola was a Greek maker of 4x4 multi-purpose trucks and other farm machinery based in Thessaloniki. The Agricola 25 GT 4x4 truck was a fairly advanced design introduced in 1975, with enhanced all-terrain capabilities, a metal cab and Mercedes-Benz 180D Diesel engine. It was a typical Greek...
, a Greek truck manufacturer - Agricola (board game)Agricola (board game)Agricola is a German-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg, and published by Lookout Games in Europe and Z-Man Games in the US. The goal of the game is to build the most well-balanced farm at the end of 14 rounds, consisting of plowed fields for crops and fenced pastures for livestock. The...
, a 2007 board game by Uwe RosenbergUwe RosenbergUwe Rosenberg is a German game designer. He has become known mainly for his card game Bohnanza, which is successful both in Germany and internationally... - 3212 Agricola3212 Agricola3212 Agricola is a main belt asteroid discovered on February 19, 1938 by Vaisala, Y. at Turku.- External links :*...
, an asteroid discovered by Yrjö VäisäläYrjö VäisäläYrjö Väisälä was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.His main contributions were in the field of optics, but he was also very active in geodetics, astronomy and optical metrology...
in 1939 - Auster AgricolaAuster AgricolaThe Auster B8 Agricola was a commercially unsuccessful British agricultural aircraft designed for the aerial topdressing market which opened up in New Zealand in the early 1950s.-Design:...
, an aircraft from the 1950s - Agricola (school), a secret NCO school operated by the Szare SzeregiSzare Szeregi"Gray Ranks" was a codename for the underground Polish Scouting Association during World War II.The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted and fought German occupation in Warsaw until 18 January 1945, and contributed to the resistance operations of the Polish...
during World War II
See also
- Agricola's Ditch
- Bauer (disambiguation)
- BaumannBaumannBaumann may refer to:* Baumann * Baumann's Cave* Baumann's Olive Greenbul * Mount Baumann, mountain in Togo* Baumann skin types...
- Schneider (surname)Schneider (surname)Schneider is a very common family name in Germany. Alternate spellings include: Schnieder , Snyder, Snider, Sneider, Sneijder , Schnyder, Schnider , Sznajder and Znaider .-People:*Alexander Schneider, classical...
- Hausmann