In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.

Notably, Dürer had contacts with various reformers, such as Zwingli, Andreas Karlstadt, Melanchthon, Erasmus and Cornelius Grapheus from whom Dürer received Luther's ' Babylonian Captivity ' in 1520.

The great scholar Erasmus would later say that Catherine " loved good literature which she had studied with success since childhood ".

The name Erasmus had been used by a number of his family and derives from his ancestor Erasmus Earle, Common Sergent of England under Oliver Cromwell.

This portion was printed in 1514, but publication was delayed until 1522 by waiting for the Old Testament portion, and the sanction of Pope Leo X. Erasmus had been working for years on two projects: a collation of Greek texts and a fresh Latin New Testament.

Erasmus had been unable to find those verses in any Greek manuscript, but one was supplied to him during production of the third edition.

In this edition Erasmus also supplied the Greek text of the last six verses of Revelation ( which he had translated from Latin back into Greek in his first edition ) from Cardinal Ximenez's Biblia Complutensis.

Noting Luther's criticism of the Catholic Church, Erasmus described him as " a mighty trumpet of gospel truth " while agreeing, " It is clear that many of the reforms for which Luther calls are urgently needed .” He had great respect for Luther, and Luther spoke with admiration of Erasmus's superior learning.

In their early correspondence, Luther expressed boundless admiration for all Erasmus had done in the cause of a sound and reasonable Christianity and urged him to join the Lutheran party.

Notable among these was Ulrich von Hutten, a brilliant but erratic genius, who had thrown himself into the Lutheran cause and had declared that Erasmus, if he had a spark of honesty, would do the same.

In a letter to a friend, Erasmus once had written: " That you are patriotic will be praised by many and easily forgiven by everyone ; but in my opinion it is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.

") Erasmus spoke favourably of Holbein as an artist and person, but later criticized Holbein whom he had accused of sponging off of various patrons to whom Erasmus had recommended, for purposes more of monetary gain than artistic endeavor.

Bart Ehrman suggests in his book Misquoting Jesus that the King James Version would not have included the passage if Desiderius Erasmus had not given in to pressure to include it in the Textus Receptus even though he doubted its authenticity.

At the same time, Renaissance humanism, with its universal values and emphasis on scholarship ( as exemplified by Erasmus, the " prince of humanism "), had taken root in the country.

A third view is that Zwingli was not a complete follower of Erasmus, but had diverged from him as early as 1516 and that he independently developed his theology.

In September, Tycho secured him a commission as a collaborator on the new project he had proposed to the emperor: the Rudolphine Tables that should replace the Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold.

Erasmus saluted him as one " whose soul was more pure than any snow, whose genius was such that England never had and never again will have its like ".

Erasmus reported that More had taken an interest early on in giving his young wife a better education than she had previously received at home, and became a personal tutor to her in the areas of music and literature.

Cast of a skull presumed to have been that of Erasmus at the Rotterdam library Erasmus collection

Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering.

It is likely that many well-known English writers would have been exposed to the works of Erasmus and Vives ( as well as those of the Classical rhetoricians ) in their schooling, which was conducted in Latin ( not English ) and often included some study of Greek and placed considerable emphasis on rhetoric.

There is evidence that he continued to support humanism ; he renewed Erasmus ' pension that had previously been granted by Archbishop Warham.

Led by Erasmus, the humanists condemned various forms of corruption within the church, forms of corruption that might not have been any more prevalent than during the medieval zenith of the church.

Without Luther's influence Melanchthon would have been " a second Erasmus ," although his heart was filled with a deep religious interest in the Reformation.

Again, since Erasmus had been educated at one of the houses of the Brethren of the Common Life in's-Hertogenbosch, and the town was religiously progressive, some writers have found it unsurprising that strong parallels exist between the caustic writing of Erasmus and the often savage painting of Bosch.

Saxo's skill as a Latinist has been praised by Erasmus, who wondered at how " a Dane of that age got so great power of eloquence.

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 ).

The name Myconius seems to have been given him by Erasmus ; it is a translated Greek name from the original Swiss surname.

The Dutch humanist Erasmus had been working for years on two projects: a collation of Greek texts and a fresh Latin New Testament.

Erasmus had been studying Greek New Testament manuscripts for many years, in the Netherlands, France, England and Switzerland, noting their many variants, but had only six Greek manuscripts immediately accessible to him in Basel.

Over time, this term has been retroactively applied to Erasmus ' editions, as his work served as the basis of the others.

He goes so far as to conclude that Erasmus must have been providentially guided when he introduced Latin Vulgate readings into his Greek text ; and even argues for the authenticity of the Comma Johanneum.

He ran a school founded on the progressive teaching methods of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and also served as Secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society, a scientific society which had been founded in the 1790s by Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles.

UL has been an active participant in the European Union's Erasmus programme since 1988 and

1536-1597 ) at Winchester ; had been enforced at length by Wolsey in his statutes for his Ipswich College in 1528, following Robert Sherborne, bishop of Chichester, in founding Rolleston school ; and had been repeatedly urged by Erasmus and others, to say nothing of William of Wykeham himself in the statutes of Winchester College.

As a leading industrialist, Wedgwood was a major backer of the Trent and Mersey Canal dug between the River Trent and River Mersey, during which time he became friends with Erasmus Darwin.

His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).

By the second half of the century the town's leading thinkers – particularly members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham such as Joseph Priestley, James Keir, Matthew Boulton, James Watt, William Withering and Erasmus Darwin – had become widely-influential participants in the Republic of Letters, the free circulation of ideas and information among the developing pan-European and trans-Atlantic intellectual elite.

* Erasmus Grasser, leading sculptor in Munich during the early 16th century

His Greek grammar ( in four books ), written in Greek, first printed at Venice in 1495, and afterwards partially translated by Erasmus in 1521, although in many respects defective, especially in its syntax, was for a long time the leading textbook.

SSE Riga charges only a nominal tuition fee, employs modern teaching methods, including group work, summer internships and case studies, and has exchange programs with many leading business schools in Europe, as a result of the Erasmus University Charter and even beyond it, including the City University of Hong Kong and Stanford University.

Various leading philosophers of the English Reformation preached there, notably Erasmus.

Erasmus Mundus contributed to restoring Europe to a leading position on the international university scene.

Erasmus MC is the largest and one of the foremost academic medical centers trauma centers in the Netherlands, whereas its economics and business school, Erasmus School of Economics and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University are leading economics school and business school within Europe and the world.

Erasmus University today is seen as the leading university in Econometrics and Operational Research.

It is one of the Europe's top graduate schools and research institute, which uniquely combines the best of three leading Dutch Universities, which Erasmus University Rotterdam is one of them.

Erasmus Grasser ( c. 1450 – c. 1515 ) was a leading sculptor in Munich in the early 16th century.

Two more leading conspirators — Ferenc Nádasdy, Chief Justice of Hungary, and Styrian governor, Count Hans Erasmus von Tattenbach — were executed ( the latter in Graz on 1 December 1671 ).