In 1527 Erasmus threw doubt on the accuracy of ascribing the authorship of this document to Ambrose, and its author is now usually spoken of as Ambrosiaster, or pseudo-Ambrose.

Erasmus Darwin House, his home in Lichfield, is now a museum dedicated to Erasmus Darwin and his life's work.

A school in nearby Chasetown recently converted to Academy status and is now known as Erasmus Darwin Academy.

In a way it is legitimate to say that Erasmus " synchronized " or " unified " the Greek and the Latin traditions of the New Testament by producing an updated ( he would say: " purified ") version of either simultaneously.

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.

Also, it is said that Erasmus chose to remain a Roman Catholic because of a lecture he heard from Savonarola, the Dominican friar who was highly influential in Florence for a time.

For Erasmus the essential point is that humans have the freedom of choice.

For example, in De libero arbitrio, opposing certain views of Martin Luther, Erasmus noted that religious disputants should be temperate in their language, " because in this way the truth, which is often lost amidst too much wrangling may be more surely perceived.

" Gary Remer writes, " Like Cicero, Erasmus concludes that truth is furthered by a more harmonious relationship between interlocutors.

Erasmus ’ s Sileni Alcibiadis (" The Sileni of Alcibiades ") is one of his most direct assessments of the need for Church reform.

In support of this, Erasmus states: “ Anyone who looks closely at the inward nature and essence will find that nobody is further from true wisdom than those people with their grand titles, learned bonnets, splendid sashes and bejeweled rings, who profess to be wisdom ’ s peak ”.

Erasmus lists several Sileni and then questions whether Christ is the most noticeable Silenus of them all.

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.

Several schools, faculties and universities in the Netherlands and Flanders are named after him, as is Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

* Hans Holbein is considered to be the greatest portraitist of Erasmus, having painted him at least three times, and perhaps as many as seven ; some only survive in versions by other artists.

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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.

He was an active member of the Lunar Society often held at Erasmus Darwin House and is remembered on the Moonstones in Birmingham.

Perhaps the strongest evidence in favor of Gutenberg is therefore that Mainz has in its possession today a first-edition of Erasmus ' Lof der Zotheid ( English translation: The Praise of Folly ), which was written in Gouda, but printed in Mainz in 1511.

Most of these translations relied ( though not always exclusively ) upon one of the printed editions of the Greek New Testament edited by Erasmus, a form of this Greek text emerged as the standard and is known as the Textus Receptus.

The mistranslation of pithos, a large storage jar, as " box " is usually attributed to the sixteenth century humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam when he translated Hesiod's tale of Pandora into Latin.

, others are held at the Fitzwilliam Museum ( this is the copy sent by Wedgwood to Erasmus Darwin which his descendants loaned to the Museum in 1963 and later sold to them ); the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Department of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum.

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.

Albert also paid for the printing of the Astronomical " Prutenic Tables " compiled by Erasmus Reinhold and the first maps of Prussia by Caspar Hennenberger.

He also derived great satisfaction from his friendships and correspondence with Erasmus and other scholars.

Johann Froben also operated his printing house in Basel and was notable for publishing works by Erasmus.

She was also a patron of Renaissance humanism, and a friend of the great scholars Erasmus of Rotterdam and Saint Thomas More.

Erasmus also translated the Latin text into Greek wherever he found that the Greek text and the accompanying commentaries were mixed up, or where he simply preferred the Vulgate ’ s reading to the Greek text.

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.

Apart from these perceived moral failings of the Reformers, Erasmus also dreaded any change in doctrine, citing the long history of the Church as a bulwark against innovation.

Erasmus also wrote of the legendary Frisian freedom fighter and rebel Pier Gerlofs Donia ( Greate Pier ), though more often criticism than praise of his exploits.

* Albrecht Dürer also produced portraits of Erasmus, whom he met three times, in the form of an engraving of 1526 and a preliminary charcoal sketch.

His conduct evoked the fiercest denunciations of Luther, but it also displeased more moderate men, especially Erasmus.

It also coordinates several intercontinental projects, mostly through the Erasmus Mundus programme.

As mentioned before, Rudolf also attracted some of the best scientific instrument makers of the time, such as Jost Buergi, Erasmus Habermel and Hans Christoph Schissler.

The treatise entitled De duplici martyrio ad Fortunatum and attributed to Cyprian was not only published by Erasmus, but probably also composed by him.

He also painted the occasional portrait, making his international mark with portraits of the humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.

Religious books from the time of the early printing press include the Book of Common Prayer from 1549, a 1585 Baskerville Bible with its revolutionary type-face, and also a collection of books by the Dutch philosopher and theologian Erasmus published from 1545 to 1548.

Zweig is best known for his novellas ( notably The Royal Game, Amok, Letter from an Unknown Woman – filmed in 1948 by Max Ophüls ), novels ( Beware of Pity, Confusion of Feelings, and the posthumously published The Post Office Girl ) and biographies ( notably Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles and also posthumously published, Balzac ).

MSc programmes are also offered through 3TU federation, Erasmus Mundus programmes, and through IDEA League joint MSc programmes.

Bailey also published a spelling-book in 1726 ; ' All the Familiar Colloquies of Erasmus Translated ,' 1733, of which a new edition appeared in 1878 ; ' The Antiquities of London and Westminster ,' 1726 ; ' Dictionarium Domesticum ,' 1736 ; Selections from Ovid and Phædrus ; and ' English and Latin Exercises.

Each year the city also attracts over 10, 000 foreign students, including over 2, 000 European students through the Erasmus programme.

It also became a centre of great intellectual activity, being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward ; this prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was " a city of philosophers ".

His Latin style was greatly admired by Erasmus, who also praised Linacre's critical judgment (" vir non exacti tantum sed sever judicii ").

A number of letters from Colet to Erasmus also survive.

Sections of his correspondence with Erasmus also suggest this religious inclination.

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 ).