 Agricola was born in 1494 as Georg Pawer, the second of seven children of a clothier and dyer in Glauchau.At the age of twelve he enrolled in the Latin school in Chemnitz or Zwickau.From 1514 to 1518 he studied at the Leipzig University where, under the name "Georgius Pawer de Glauchaw", he first inscribed to the summer semester for theology, philosophy and philology under rector Nikolaus Apel and for ancient languages, Greek and Latin in particular, He received his first Latin lectures under Petrus Mosellanus, a celebrated humanist of the time and adherent of Erasmus of Rotterdam.