Erasmus

Erasmus
Erasmus
	Portrait o Erasmus o Rotterdam (1523); bi Hans Holbein the Younger
Born	c. 28 October 1466; Rotterdam or Gouda, Burgundian Netherlands
Dee'd	12 Julie 1536 (aged 69); Basel, Auld Swiss Confederacy
Ither names	Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Erasmus o Rotterdam
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge; Collège de Montaigu, Paris; Varsity o Turin
Era	Renaissance filosofie
Region	Wastren filosofie
Institutions	Varsity o Leuven
Main interests	Christian filosofie; Renaissance humanism
Notable ideas	Erasmian pronunciation
	Influences Epicureanism, Cicero, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, John Colet, Alexander Hegius, Jan Standonck;
	Influenced Thomas More, Damião de Góis, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, Jacob Milich, Wolfgang Capito, John Colet;

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October 1466^[1]^[2] – 12 Julie 1536), kent as Erasmus or Erasmus o Rotterdam,^{[note 1]} wis a Dutch/Netherlandish Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social creetic, teacher, an theologian.

Notes

↑ Erasmus wis his baptismal name, gien efter St. Erasmus o Formiae. Desiderius wis a sel-adoptit addeetional name, which he uised frae 1496. The Roterodamus wis a scholarly name meanin "frae Rotterdam", tho the Laitin genitive would be Roterdamensis.

↑ Gleason, John B. "The Birth Dates of John Colet and Erasmus of Rotterdam: Fresh Documentary Evidence," Renaissance Quarterly, The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 73–76; www.jstor.org
↑ Harry Vredeveld, "The Ages of Erasmus and the Year of his Birth", Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 754–809, www.jstor.org