Leonard Cox

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1495 – 1549

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Who was Leonard Cox?

Leonard Cox was an English humanist, author of the first book in English on rhetoric. He was a scholar of international reputation who found patronage in Poland, and was friend of Erasmus and Melanchthon. He was known to contemporaries as a grammarian, rhetorician, poet, and preacher, and was skilled in the modern as well as the classical languages.

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Born
1495
Education
  • University of Cambridge
Died
1549

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on July 23, 2013

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