See prefounder on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1993, George Sarton, Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. (page 404)",
"text": "[Asclepiades] […] has two claims to distinction, first, to be the first eminent Greek doctor to practice in Rome, and second, to be the founder, or prefounder, of a new medical school, the Methodist."
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"One who has a formative influence on the later founding of something."
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