Erasmus, Desiderius 1467-1536
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27?, 1467?, Rotterdam – July 12, 1536, Basel) was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic Christian theologian. His scholarly name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus comprises the following three elements: the Latin noun desiderium ("longing" or "desire"; the name being a genuine Late Latin name); the Greek adjective ἐράσμιος (erásmios) meaning "desired", and, in the form Erasmus, also the name of a saint; and the Latinized adjectival form for the city of Rotterdam (Roterodamus = "of Rotterdam").
Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a "pure" Latin style and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists." He has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists." Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. These raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.
Erasmus lived through the Reformation period and he consistently criticized some contemporary popular Christian beliefs. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within. He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Protestant Reformers rejected in favor of the doctrine of predestination. His middle road disappointed and even angered many Protestants, such as Martin Luther, as well as conservative Catholics. He died in Basel in 1536 and was buried in the formerly Catholic cathedral there, recently converted to a Reformed church.
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Erasmus (1897), by Sir Richard Claverhous Jebb (1841-1905)
Erasmus (1902) by Ernest F. H. Capey (1865- )
Erasmus, and other essays (1891) by Marcus Dods (1834-1909)
Erasmus: the scholar (1907) by John Alfred Faulkner (1857-1931)
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1899) by Ephraim Emerton (1851-1935)
Erasmus of Rotterdam (1921) by Maurice Wilkinson (1873- )
The Age Of Erasmus (1963) by P. S. Allen
The Life of Erasmus. Volume 1 (1808) by John Jortin, Jean Le CLerc
The Life of Erasmus. Volume 2 (1808) by John Jortin, Jean Le Clerc
The Life and Character of Erasmus (1875) by Arthur Robert Pennington
Erasmus & Luther: their attitude to toleration (1920) by Robert Henry Murray (1874- )
Erasmus In Praise of Folly : with portrait, life of Erasmus, and his Epistle to Sir Thomas More ; illustrated with many curious engravings, designed, drawn and etched (1922)
A book called in Latin Enchiridion militis Christiani, and in English The Manual of the Christian Knight (1905)
A playne and godly exposytion or declaration of the commune crede : (which in the Latin tonge is called Symbolum apostolorum) : and of the .x. commaundementes of Goddes law (1533)
The colloquies of Erasmus, Volume 1 (1878)
The colloquies of Erasmus, Volume 2 (1878)
The complaint of peace; (1917)
Erasmi concio de puero Jesu = A sermon on the child Jesus (1901)
The Institution Principis Christiani, chapters III-XI (1921)
Pilgrimages to Saint Mary of Walsingham and Saint Thomas of Canterbury (1849)
The Apophthegms of the Ancients : being an historical collection of the most celebrated, elegant, pithy and prudential sayings of all the illustrious personages of antiquity expressing their philosophical, civil, and military notions; representing their humour genius, wit, and manners, and exhibiting a choice variety of curious and improving anecdotes of their lives (1753)
Ciceronianus; or, A dialogue on the best style of speaking (1908)
The Epistles of Erasmus : from his earliest letters to his fifty-first year arranged in order of time, Volume 1 (1901)
The Epistles of Erasmus : from his earliest letters to his fifty-first year arranged in order of time, Volume 2 (1901)
The Epistles of Erasmus : from his earliest letters to his fifty-first year arranged in order of time, Volume 3 : English translations from the early correspondence with a commentary confirming the chronological arrangement and supplying further biographical matter (1901)
Life and letters of Erasmus (1894) by James Anthony Froude (1818-1894)
Proverbs, chiefly taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with explanations, and further illustrated by corresponding examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English languages, Volume 1 (1814)
The whole familiar colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1877)
The colloquies; concerning men, manners, and things. Translated into English by N. Bailey, and edited, with notes by E. Johnson, Volume 2 (1900)
The colloquies; concerning men, manners, and things. Translated into English by N. Bailey, and edited, with notes by E. Johnson, Volume 3 (1900)
Erasmus Against War: With an Introduction (1907)
A Mery Dialogue, declaringe the propertyes of shrowde shrewes, and honest wyues, not onelie verie pleasaunte, but also not a lytle profitable: made by ye famous clerke D. Erasmus. Roterodamus - Translated into English 1557
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Two dyaloges wrytten in laten by the famous clerke. D. Erasmus of Roterodame/ one called Polyphemus or the gospeller/ the other dysposyng of thynges and names/ translated in to Englyshe by Edmonde Becke. And prynted at Cantorbury in saynt Paules paryshe by John Mychell. - 1549
A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure, made by that famous clerke Erasmus of Roterodame, newly translated. - 1545
Charles L. Cortright, "Luther and Erasmus: The Debate on the Freedom of the Will"
Erasmus Writings List Chronological
Portraits of Erasmus: Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies
Erasmus Texts Online: PDF Downloads
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