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TOPIC : Thomas Linacre

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October 1524) was an English humanist scholar and physician, after

whom Linacre College, Oxford, and Linacre House, a boys' boarding house at The King's School, Canterbury, are named.

It is difficult to judge his practical skill in his

profession, but it was highly esteemed in his own day. He took no part in political or theological questions, but his career as a scholar was characteristic of the critical period in the history of learning through which he lived

in Italy, and brought back to his native country and

his own university the lessons of the "New Learning". His teachers were some of the greatest scholars of the day. Among his pupils was one—Erasmus—whose name alone would suffice to preserve the memory of his instructor in Greek, and others of note in letters and politics, such as Sir Thomas More, Prince Arthur and Queen Mary I of England. John Colet, William Grocyn, William Lilye and other eminent scholars were his intimate friends, and he was esteemed by a still wider circle of literary correspondents in all parts of Europe.

an ancient family recorded in the Domesday Book.[citation needed] He

received his early education at the Canterbury Cathedral school, under the direction of William Tilly of Selling, who became prior of Canterbury in 1472. It was from Selling that Linacre must have received his first incentive to the study of Classics. Linacre entered Oxford in about 1480, and in 1484 was elected a fellow of All Souls College. Shortly afterwards he visited Italy in the train of Selling, who was sent by King Henry VII as an envoy to the papal court. Linacre accompanied his patron as far as Bologna. There he became the pupil of Angelo Poliziano, and shared the instruction which Poliziano imparted at Florence to the sons of Lorenzo de Medici. The younger of these princes became Pope Leo X, and later remembered his old companionship with Linacre.[3] Among his other teachers and friends in Italy were Demetrius Chalcondylas, Hermolaus Barbarus, Aldus Romanus the printer of Venice (of whose New Academy Linacre was a member), and Nicolaus Leonicenus of Vicenza. Linacre took the degree of doctor of medicine with great distinction at Padua.

imbued with the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, he formed

one of the brilliant circle of Oxford scholars, including John Colet, William Grocyn and William Latimer, who are mentioned in the letters of Erasmus.
Linacre does not appear to have practised or taught medicine in Oxford. In about 1501, he was called to court as tutor of the young Arthur, Prince of Wales. On the accession of Henry VIII in 1509, he was appointed the king's physician, an office at that time of considerable influence and importance, and practised medicine in London, having among his patients most of the great statesmen and prelates of the time, including Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop William Warham and Bishop Fox

the study of theology and the duties of the priesthood.

Around 1509, he received priest's orders as the rector of Merstham, Kent. Numerous ecclesiastical positions followed, finalising with him obtaining the rectorship of Wigan in 1520,[4] which he held until his death in 1524. His clerical benefices, included the Precentorship of York Minster.[5] His ordination was connected with his retirement from active life. Literary labours, and the cares of the foundation which owed its existence chiefly to him, the Royal College of Physicians, occupied Linacre's remaining years

The most important service Linacre conferred upon his own profession and science was the foundation by royal charter of the College of Physicians in London, and he was the first president of the new college, which he further aided by bequeathing to it his own house and library. Shortly before his death, Linacre obtained from the king letters patent for the establishment of readerships in medicine at Oxford and Cambridge, and placed valuable estates in the hands of trustees for their endowment. Two readerships were founded at Merton College, Oxford, and a lecture St John's College, Cambridge. The Oxford foundation was revived by the university commissioners in 1856 in the form of the Linacre professorship of anatomy.[3] At St John's College the funds are still in use today; since 1989 the college has hosted an annual 'Linacre Lecture'[6] on a subject in medicine, delivered by a leading research scientist in their field.

Linacre is listed on a modern monument in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London as one of the important graves lost in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

in translation from Greek. In the domain of scholarship he

was known by the rudiments of (Latin) grammar (Progymnasmata Grammatices vulgaria), composed in English, a revised version of which was made for the use of the Princess Mary, and afterwards translated into Latin by George Buchanan. He also wrote a work on Latin composition, De emendata structura Latini sermonis ("On the Pure and Correct Structure of Latin Prose"), which was published in London in 1524 and many times reprinted on the continent of Europe.[3]

Linacre's only medical works were his translations. He desired to make the works of Galen (and indeed those of Aristotle also) accessible to all readers of Latin. What he effected in the case of the first, though not trifling in itself, is inconsiderable as compared with the whole mass of Galen's writings; and of his translations from Aristotle, some of which are known to have been completed, nothing has survived. The following are the works of Galen translated by Linacre:

de Inaequali Intemperie (Cambridge, 1521)
4: De naturalibus facultatibus (London, 1523)
5:

De symptomatum differentiis et causis (London, 1524)

6: De pulsuum Usu (London, without date).

Nationality : English
Other names : Lynaker
Occupation : humanist

scholar,
physician, clergyman


WORKS:
1: De sanitate tuenda, (Paris, 1517)
2:Methodus medendi (Paris, 1519)
3: De temperamentis et de Inaequali Intemperie (Cambridge, 1521)
4: De naturalibus facultatibus (London, 1523)
5: De symptomatum differentiis et causis (London, 1524)
6: De pulsuum Usu (London, without date).