The Latin name Agricola means farmer (as does the name Huber). Note that it has the same root as agriculture. There was a time when it was fashionable in Germany, especially among scholars and churchmen, to drop prosaic German surnames and adopt their Latinized equivalents. I do not know how the family of Elisabetha Agricola came to have that name, nor whether there is any connection between them and any prominent Agricolas.

In the Catholic Encyclopedia, the article on Heidelberg Castle mentions "Rudolf Agricola, founder of the older German Humanistic School..." and in its article on Rhenish Palatinate it mentions a Rudolf Agricola being received at Heidelberg Castle.

Another web site describes Rudolf Agricola (Netherlands,1442-1485, real name Roelof Huysman), a professor in philosophy, a writer, and a leading educator of the deaf.

Here is a site that mentions "...the Roman Catholic theologian, Franz Agricola, in his book of 1582, "Against the Terrible Errors of the Anabaptists..." (Perhaps he was preaching against my Swiss Mennonite ancestors.)

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