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Richard Croke

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Croke was an English classical scholar and a royal tutor and agent. Early life and education He was educated at Eton College. He took his BA at King's College, Cambridge in 1510 and proceeded to travel. He studied Greek with William Grocyn in London and Oxford and then with Erasmus and Aleander in Paris in 1511. In 1514, he was called to the University of Leipzig, where he remained for some years. Among his pupils were Joachim Camerarius, Hieronymus Dungersheim, who had studied with Croke in Dresden, and Caspar Creuziger. He was replaced by Petrus Mosellanus. As a young man, he was identified as a follower of Erasmus, who was then constructing his editio princeps of the New Testament in Greek .

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