Examples of humanist in the following topics:
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- The Humanists of the Renaissance created schools to teach their ideas and wrote books all about education.
- One of the most important humanist schools was established and created by Vittorino da Feltre in 1423.
- Overall, Humanist education was thought at the time as being an important factor to the preparation of life.
- Humanist schools combined Christianity and the classics to produce a model of education for all of Europe.
- Laura Cereta (1469–1499) was a Renaissance humanist and feminist.
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- Erasmus of Rotterdam was a renowned humanist scholar and theologian who wrote several important texts criticizing the superstition and formalism of the Church while upholding its core spiritual values.
- Erasmus of Rotterdam, or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.
- Among humanists he enjoyed the name "Prince of the Humanists," and has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists."
- Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation.
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- The new humanist ideals of the Renaissance, although more secular in many aspects, developed against a Christian backdrop, and the Church patronized many works of Renaissance art.
- Churchmen such as Erasmus and Luther proposed reform to the Church, often based on humanist textual criticism of the New Testament.
- In the revival of neo-Platonism and other ancient philosophies, Renaissance humanists did not reject Christianity; quite the contrary, many of the Renaissance's greatest works were devoted to it, and the Church patronized many works of Renaissance art.
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- Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.
- He inspired humanist philosophy which led to the intellectual flowering of the Renaissance.
- A highly introspective man, he shaped the nascent humanist movement a great deal because many of the internal conflicts and musings expressed in his writings were seized upon by Renaissance humanist philosophers and argued continually for the next 200 years.
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- The humanist Francesco Petrarch, a key figure in the renewed sense of scholarship, was also an accomplished poet, publishing several important works of poetry.
- Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370 – March 9, 1444) was an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance.
- It was Bruni who used the phrase studia humanitatis, meaning the study of human endeavors, as distinct from those of theology and metaphysics, which is where the term humanists comes from.
- As a humanist Bruni was essential in translating into Latin many works of Greek philosophy and history, such as Aristotle and Procopius.
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- Humanist scholars searched monastic libraries for ancient manuscripts and recovered Tacitus and other Latin authors.
- The rediscovery of Vitruvius meant that the architectural principles of Antiquity could be observed once more, and Renaissance artists were encouraged, in the atmosphere of humanist optimism, to excel the achievements of the Ancients, like Apelles, of whom they read.
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- At Florence the most celebrated humanists wrote also in the vulgar tongue, and commented on Dante and Petrarch, and defended them from their enemies.
- It is characterized by the adoption of a humanist philosophy, the recovery of the classical literature of Antiquity and benefited from the spread of printing in the latter part of the 15th century.
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- The European Renaissance laid the foundation for the Northern humanists in its reinforcement of the traditional use of Latin as the great unifying language of European culture.
- The great rise of the burghers (merchant class) and their desire to run their new businesses free of institutional barriers or outmoded cultural practices contributed to the appeal of humanist individualism.
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- Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist and physician of European fame, is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital.
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- These émigrés were grammarians, humanists, poets, writers, printers, lecturers, musicians, astronomers, architects, academics, artists, scribes, philosophers, scientists, politicians and theologians.