In 1499, while in England, Erasmus was particularly impressed by the Bible teaching of John Colet who pursued a style more akin to the church fathers than the Scholastics.

On his return to Oxford, full of the learning and imbued with the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, he formed one of the brilliant circle of Oxford scholars, including John Colet, William Grocyn and William Latimer, who are mentioned in the letters of Erasmus.

His methods did much to influence Erasmus, who visited Oxford in 1498, and who later received an annuity from Colet.

Many opinions regarding Colet emerged due to this sermon, in addition to the biographical information described by Erasmus.

While Colet is not as well known a Christian humanist as Erasmus, his writings are reflective of Christian humanism.

Erasmus said of Colet: “ When I listen to Colet it seems to me that I am listening to Plato himself ”.

Erasmus likely portrayed Colet to show that one could be highly critical of the Church while still a loyal priest.

Scholars believed Colet strongly impacted Erasmus and the English Reformation.

Erasmus stated that Colet was a man for the ages and a true Christian.

Together with Lilye, Erasmus, and Wolsey, Colet produced materials forming the basis of the authorized Latin Grammar, used for centuries in the English schools.

A number of letters from Colet to Erasmus also survive.

This Brevissima Institutio, a sketch by Colet, corrected by Erasmus and worked upon by Lily, contains two portions the author of which is indisputably Lily.

Colet was an outspoken critic of the powerful and worldly Church of his day, a friend of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More.

Yonge was on terms of intimate friendship with Dean Colet, and was a correspondent of Erasmus.

These reached their peak in the Renaissance and Wolfe particularly draws inspiration from the Renaissance humanists that supported the Catholic Church, such as Erasmus, Thomas More, Johann Reuchlin and John Colet.

Colet is an important early leader of Christian humanism as he linked humanism and reform.

His time in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in the days of King Henry VIII: John Colet, Thomas More, John Fisher, Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn.

" I cannot tell you, dear Colet, how I hurry on, with all sails set, to holy literature.

This essay compares to John Colet ’ s Convocation Sermon, though the styles differ.

* September 10 – John Colet, English churchman and educator ( b. 1467 )

* St Paul's School is founded by John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

* John Colet receives his M. A.

* January – John Colet, English churchman and educational pioneer ( d. 1519 )

John Colet, William Grocyn, William Lilye and other eminent scholars were his intimate friends, and he was esteemed by a still wider circle of literary correspondents in all parts of Europe.

John Colet ( January 1467 – 10 September 1519 ) was an English churchman and educational pioneer.

Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, and Dean of St. Paul ’ s Cathedral, London.

Colet wanted people to see the scripture as their guide through life.

The eldest son of Sir Henry Colet, ( Lord Mayor of London 1486 and 1495 ), he was born in London in January 1467, and was educated at St Anthony's school and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his M. A.

Since 1494, Colet had been prebendary of York, and canon of St Martin le Grand, London.

While at St. Paul ’ s between 1505 and 1519, Colet used his preaching, administration, scriptural exegesis and education towards Church reform.

Around 1508, having inherited his father's wealth, Colet formed his plan for the re-foundation of St Paul's School, which he completed in 1512, and endowed with estates of an annual value of £ 122 and upwards.

He continued his studies while he served as a pastor in Glarus and later in Einsiedeln, where he was influenced by the writings of Erasmus.

He was influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus, who made the Greek New Testament available in Europe, and by Martin Luther.

Anne's father was influenced by Erasmus and followed a moderate path within the Reformation.

However, Henry himself appears to have been much more influenced by the opinions on monasticism of the humanists Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More, especially as found in Erasmus's work In Praise of Folly ( 1511 ) and More's Utopia ( 1516 ).

Around this time, he became influenced by humanism, and he started buying books published by Johannes Froben, some by the great humanist Erasmus.

He was also the patron of Rudolph Agricola ( Rudolf de Boer ), who in his youth at Zwolle had studied under Thomas à Kempis ; and through this connection the Brethren of the Common Life, through Cusa and Agricola, influenced Erasmus and other adepts in the New Learning.

During this period, the university at Salamanca was strongly influenced by Erasmus, and was a center for Spanish Franciscan intellectual life.

Writers and humanists such as Rabelais, Pierre de Ronsard and Desiderius Erasmus were greatly influenced by the Italian Renaissance model and were part of the same intellectual movement.

Modern philosophical thought has very much been influenced by Christian philosophers such as St Thomas Aquinas and Erasmus.

However, it is important to stress that Erasmus speaks from his location as a member of the Dene and his intellectual thoughts would be influenced by his relationships with his elders and his position within his community.

There is no direct evidence linking Darwin to Benjamin Franklin's treatise " Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc .." However, Franklin was a friend and colleague of both Erasmus and Robert Darwin, and it has been suggested that this work may have influenced Darwin's study of Malthus ' belief on the relationship between population and subsistence.

Throughout the Christian Prince treatise, Erasmus deftly invokes the knowledge, wisdom and ultimately, truth, to be gleaned from other great thinkers of antiquity such as Plato, Seneca, and Plutarch ( who seems to have influenced Erasmus most ) who will point the prince to Truth.

He visited with Michael Wohlgemuth and his art was influenced by him and by that of Veit Stoss and Hans Pleydenwurff as well as by collaboration with the woodcutter Erasmus Grasser.