Nicolaus Clenardus

Nicolaus Clenardus (1495 - 1542), writer

It is registered at the University of Leuwen the August 31st 1512 as student of the pedagogy of the Pig, was the friend of Jacques Latomus. It follows the courses of Guillaume Barlandus and at the end of its studies is named, for 10 years, chair college of Houterlé Leuwen where it teaches the Hebrew and the Greek . The influence of Juan Shine Sharp and the prospect for the end of its mandate, show it more and more convinced of the need for learning the Arab and for studying the literature of the Islam to convert the heretics. It can think of putting this project at execution by accompanying the son by Christophe Colomb, Hernando, in Spain, country close to the Arab kingdoms. However, he sees himself forced to make a halt of a few years to the Portugal where calls it the king Jean III which wants a tutor to complete the theological education of his/her brother Don Henri that he intends for the archbishop's palace Braga. It is in this city that Clenardus founds a college Humaniste. Our grammairien can leave finally for Grenade, capital of the first Arab kingdom of the peninsula where he learns the Coran. In 1540, it unloads in the Portuguese city of Ceuta while passing by Gibraltar, but after many adventures, it returns to Grenade where it dies.

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