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Agricola

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Agricola, the Latin word for farmer, may refer to:

People

  • Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40–93), Roman governor of Britannia (AD 77–85)
  • Julia Agricola (born 64), wife of Tacitus
  • Sextus Calpurnius Agricola, Roman governor of the mid–2nd century AD
  • Agricola (consul 421) (born 365), Western Roman statesman
  • Agricola (vir inlustris), son of the Western Roman Emperor Avitus
  • Saints Vitalis and Agricola (died 304), martyrs
  • Saint Agricola of Avignon (630–700), bishop of Avignon
  • Saint Agricola of Nevers (died 594), bishop of Nevers
  • Rodolphus Agricola (1443–1485), Dutch scholar and humanist
  • Alexander Agricola (1446–1506), Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
  • Martin Agricola (1486–1556), German composer and music theorist of the Renaissance
  • Stephan Agricola, also Kastenpaur (1491–1547), German scholar and theologian, formerly an Augustinian monk
  • Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German scholar and scientist, and the 'father of mineralogy'
  • Johannes Agricola (1494–1566), German scholar and theologian, an antinomian
  • Mikael Agricola (1510–1557), Finnish/Swedish theologian and reformer
  • Philipp Agricola (fl. 1571–1594), German poet and dramatist
  • Adam Christian Agricola (1593–1645), evangelical preacher
  • Georg Ludwig Agricola (1643–1676), German composer
  • Ignaz Agricola (1661–1729), German Jesuit
  • Christoph Ludwig Agricola (1667–1719), German landscape painter
  • Georg Andreas Agricola (1672–1738), German physician and naturalist
  • Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720–1774), German composer
  • John Young (merchant) (1773–1837), merchant, author and political figure in Nova Scotia who wrote under the name Agricola
  • Kurt Agricola (1889–1955), German World War II general
  • Agricola Filip (general) (1891–1965), Romanian Brigadier General in World War 2 and veteran of World War 1
  • Ilka Agricola (born 1973), German mathematician

Other uses

  • Agricola, Florida
  • Agricola, Georgia
  • Agricola, Kansas
  • Agricola, Mississippi
  • Agricola (book), a biography of Julius Agricola by Tacitus
  • AGRICOLA, a database of scientific papers
  • Agricola (vehicles), a Greek truck manufacturer
  • Agricola (board game), a 2007 board game by Uwe Rosenberg
  • 3212 Agricola, an asteroid discovered by Yrjö Väisälä in 1939
  • Auster Agricola, an aircraft from the 1950s
  • Agricola (school), a secret NCO school operated by the Szare Szeregi during World War II
  • Agricola Street, a prominent street in the North End of Halifax, Nova Scotia

See also

  • Agricola's Ditch
  • Bauer (disambiguation)
  • Baumann (disambiguation)
  • Hausmann
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