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- He became noted for his editions of Classical authors, Church Fathers, and the New Testament as well as for his own works, including Handbook of a Christian Knight (1503) and Praise of Folly (1509). Using the philological methods pioneered by Italian humanists, he helped lay the groundwork for the historical-critical study of the past.
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Desiderius Erasmus (1468?—1536) Desiderius Erasmus was one of the leading activists and thinkers of the European Renaissance. His main activity was to write letters to the leading statesmen, humanists, printers, and theologians of the first three and a half decades of the sixteenth century.
Sep 22, 2008 · Though most vividly remembered now for his critical satires of abuses in the church and secular society and for his work as editor of the first published edition of the Greek New Testament, he was a prolific and influential author in many genres.
Desiderius Erasmus, (born Oct. 27, 1469, Rotterdam, Holland—died July 12, 1536, Basel, Switz.), Dutch priest and humanist, considered the greatest European scholar of the 16th century. The illegitimate son of a priest and a physician’s daughter, he entered a monastery and was ordained a priest in 1492.
Desiderius Erasmus was the only humanist whose international fame in his own time compared to Petrarch’s. While lacking Petrarch’s polemical zeal and spirit of self-inquiry, he shared the Italian’s intense love of language, his dislike for the complexities and pretenses of medieval institutions both secular and religious, and his ...
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch scholar and humanist whose humorous treatments of Roman Catholic orthodoxy endeared him to many reformers while subjecting him to enormous criticism...
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was an influential Dutch Renaissance philosopher. He was both a Catholic Priest and a renowned humanist. His criticisms of church practices lay the seeds of the Protestant Reformation, though Erasmus never subscribed to the direction of Luther’s Reformation and he remained a committed Catholic throughout his life.
