Erasmus was one of the scholars learned in Greek that the Aldine Press employed.

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

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

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

In 2012, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, " for his ability to translate the cultural significance of science and technology to a broad audience.

Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.

– 12 July 1536 ), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.

Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style.

Erasmus lived through the Reformation period, but while he was critical of the Church, he did not join the cause of the Reformers.

Erasmus died in Basel in 1536 and was buried in Basel Minster.

Desiderius Erasmus was born in Holland on 28 October in the late 1460s.

He was christened " Erasmus " after the saint of that name.

Although he was born out of wedlock, Erasmus was cared for by his parents until their early deaths from the plague in 1483.

No personal denunciation was made of Erasmus during his lifetime, however, and he took pains to put distance in later life with these earlier episodes by condemning sodomy in his works, and praising sexual desire in the context of marriage between men and women.

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.

His residence at Leuven, where he lectured at the Catholic University, exposed Erasmus to much criticism from those ascetics, academics and clerics hostile to the principles of literary and religious reform and the loose norms of the Renaissance adherents to which he was devoting his life.

Erasmus held himself aloof from entangling obligations, yet he was the centre of the literary movement of his time.

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 said it was " rushed into print rather than edited ".

Most of the manuscripts were, however, late Greek manuscripts of the Byzantine textual family and Erasmus used the oldest manuscript the least because " he was afraid of its supposedly erratic text.

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.

* Erasmus Programme, which takes its name from this great traveller on the roads of Europe

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

Among his pupils was one — Erasmus — whose name alone would suffice to preserve the memory of his instructor in Greek, and others of note in letters and politics, such as Sir Thomas More, Prince Arthur and Queen Mary I of England.

The Factory name was first used for a club in May of that year, which featured local bands including The Durutti Column ( managed at the time by Erasmus and Wilson ), Cabaret Voltaire from Sheffield and Joy Division.

But in the spring he found it necessary to visit the baths of Liebenzell, and there contracted jaundice, of which he died, leaving in the history of the new learning a name only second to that of his younger contemporary Erasmus.

The Greek text of this edition and of those of Erasmus became known as the Textus Receptus ( Latin for " received text "), a name given to it in the Elzevier edition of 1633, which termed it as the text nunc ab omnibus receptum (" now received by all ").

St. Elmo's fire is named after St. Erasmus of Formiae ( also called St. Elmo, the Italian name for St. Erasmus ), the patron saint of sailors.

The Erasmushogeschool Brussel ( English name: Erasmus University College Brussels ) is an institute of higher education based in Brussels, Belgium.

Assman or Assmann is a German language surname derived from the name Erasmus.

Among the institutions that enjoy sister relationships with NTNU are the Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazil, La Universidad Nacional de Asuncion in Paraguay, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Radford University, Rutgers University, San Diego State University, San Francisco State University, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Iowa and University of Pittsburgh in the US, the University of Alberta, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Canada, the University of Glasgow and University of London in the UK, the Denis Diderot University and University of Poitiers in France, University of Bonn and University of Heidelberg in Germany, the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts in Austria, the RSM Erasmus University in the Netherlands, the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, and the Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, to name a few.

The " d ’ Étaples " was not part of his name as such, but used to distinguish him from Jacques Lefèvre of Deventer, a less significant contemporary, a friend and correspondent of Erasmus.

* Master or Bachelor Scholarship, a general name for different international exchange programs, like Erasmus in Europe.

Rasmus is a shortened form of " Erasmus ", the name of Desiderius Erasmus.

Together with the Sophia Children's Hospital and the Daniel den Hoed Clinic, it forms the University Hospital Rotterdam, which as of 1 January 2003 bears the name Erasmus MC.

Erasmus Medical Center is the new name for the university medical centre in Rotterdam, which is a merger of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and the University Hospital Rotterdam ( Dijkzigt, Sophia, Daniel den Hoed clinic ).

Erasmus added Charles's name to that of his father in the dedication to the 1528 edition of the Adagia and Charles was the dedicatee of the next two editions ( 1533, 1536 ) as well.

His middle name was given him in honor of Erasmus Darwin, of whose poem “ The Botanic Garden ” his father was a great admirer.

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.

Through the Erasmus program, teachers have traveled to co-operating universities and given lectures.

In a speech given by Erasmus in 2002, he continues to call for conversation “ nation to nation ,” as the means upon which to build a “ common future ”.

Among the awards given to him were the Medal of Honour for the Arts and Sciences from the Netherlands, presented to him by Queen Beatrix in 2009, and the 1980 Erasmus Prize, which he shared with Nicolaus Harnoncourt ; it honored their recording of the complete Bach cantatas.

By 1828 Erasmus was ready to sit his Bachelor of Medicine exam at the University of Cambridge, and early in the new year he was accompanied to Cambridge by his brother Charles who had given up on medical studies and was now starting a course to qualify as a clergyman.