During his stay there the curriculum was renewed by the principal of the school, Alexander Hegius. Lebuin's Church), though some earlier biographies assert it was a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life. In 1475, at the age of nine, he and his older brother Peter were sent to one of the best Latin schools in the Netherlands, located at Deventer and owned by the chapter clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk (St.
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Įrasmus was given the highest education available to a young man of his day, in a series of monastic or semi-monastic schools. This solidified his view of his origin as a stain and cast a pall over his youth. Although he was born out of wedlock, Erasmus was cared for by his parents until their early deaths from the Plague in 1483. His mother was Margaretha Rogerius (Latinized form of Dutch surname Rutgers) the daughter of a doctor from Zevenbergen. His father, Gerard, was a Catholic priest and curate in Gouda.
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Information on his family and early life comes mainly from vague references in his writings. Although associated closely with Rotterdam, he lived there for only four years, never to return afterwards. The Virtual International Authority File reveals the standard dates favoured by various national authorities Evidence confirming the year of Erasmus's birth in 1466 can be found in his own words: fifteen out of twenty-three statements he made about his age indicate 1466. The exact year of his birth is controversial, but most agree it was in 1466. According to an article by historian Renier Snooy (1478–1537), Erasmus was born in Gouda. A well-known wooden picture indicates: Goudæ conceptus, Roterodami natus (Latin for Conceived in Gouda, born in Rotterdam). A 17th-century legend has it that Erasmus was first named Geert Geerts (also Gerhard Gerhards or Gerrit Gerritsz), but this is unfounded. He was named after Saint Erasmus of Formiae, whom Erasmus's father Gerard personally favored. īust by Hildo Krop (1950) at Gouda, where Erasmus spent his youthĭesiderius Erasmus is reported to have been born in Rotterdam on 28 October in the late 1460s.
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His middle-road ( via media) approach disappointed, and even angered, scholars in both camps.Įrasmus died suddenly in Basel in 1536 while preparing to return to Brabant and was buried in Basel Minster, the former cathedral of the city. He also held to the doctrine of synergism, which some Reformers (Calvinists) rejected in favor of the doctrine of monergism. He remained a member of the Catholic Church all his life, remaining committed to reforming the Church and its clerics' abuses from within.
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He also wrote On Free Will, In Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.Įrasmus lived against the backdrop of the growing European religious Reformation. Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. Among humanists he enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists". As a Catholic priest, he was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( / ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s/ English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus 28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian who is considered one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance.