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Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Born:
October 27, 1469 [1466?], Rotterdam, Holland [now in the Netherlands]
Died:
July 12, 1536, Basel, Switzerland (aged 66)
Notable Works:
“Adagia”
“Antibarbarorum liber”
“De libero arbitrio”
“De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia”
“Education of a Christian Prince”
“Handbook of a Christian Knight”
“Hyperaspistes”
“Julius exclusus e coelis”
“Praise of Folly”
“The Complaint of Peace”
Movement / Style:
Renaissance
Subjects Of Study:
Christianity
Church Father
New Testament
free will
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Erasmus (born October 27, 1469 [1466?], Rotterdam, Holland [now in the Netherlands]—died July 12, 1536, Basel, Switzerland) Dutch humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament, and also an important figure in patristics and classical literature. Using the philological methods pioneered by Italian humanists, Erasmus helped lay the groundwork for the historical-critical study of the past, especially in his studies of the Greek New Testament and the Church Fathers. His educational writings contributed to the replacement of the older Scholastic curriculum by the new humanist emphasis on the classics. By criticizing ...(100 of 3483 words)

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