DESIDERIUS ERASMUS [A LATIN PARAPHRASE OF HIS DUTCH NAME.]
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Definitions of DESIDERIUS ERASMUS [A LATIN PARAPHRASE OF HIS DUTCH NAME.]
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A celebrated Dutch humanist; born at Rotterdam, 1465 or 1467; died July 12, 1536. All his writings are in Latin. He made a collection of "Adages" (1500), with applications to the time; wrote a very popular volume of "Colloquies" (1521); and a sweeping satire, "The Praise of Folly". His editions of works of the ancients-Cicero, Seneca, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, etc.-are innumerable; and he made an elegant translation of the New Testament, which was used by Luther in his German version. In his later years he was caught up in the general polemic current and wrote against the new doctrines; his treatise on "Free-Will" calling forth a reply from Luther in a pamphlet entitled "On Slave Will". ("Complete Works", 10 vols. folio, 1703-6.)
By Charles Dudley Warner
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- Desiderius Erasmus [A Latin paraphrase of his Dutch name.]
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