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.

Erasmus was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae.

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.

Some evidence confirming 1466 can be found in Erasmus's own words: of twenty-three statements Erasmus made about his age, all but one of the first fifteen indicate 1466.

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

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

His three profile portraits of Erasmus, two ( nearly identical ) profile portraits and one three-quarters view portrait were all painted in the same year, 1523.

He studied in Venice, where he became acquainted with Erasmus and Aldus Manutius, and at an early age was reputed one of the most learned men of the time.

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.

For instance, in one section of the De Copia, Erasmus presents two hundred variations of the sentence " Semper, dum vivam, tui meminero.

" Erasmus claimed him as a father / teacher figure and may have actually met him through his own schoolmaster Alexander Hegius ( most probably one of Agricola's students ) at Hegius's school in Deventer.

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 ".

More's friend Andrew Ammonius derided Alice as a " hook-nosed harpy ", although Erasmus attested that the marriage was a happy one.

In particular, it houses the Erasmus collection, one of the richest resources in North America for the study of works written or edited by the great Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.

At least one of these cases was a patient whom Erasmus Darwin had asked Withering for his second opinion.

It was not, however, to these sources that Beza was chiefly indebted, but rather to the previous edition of the eminent Robert Estienne ( 1550 ), itself based in great measure upon one of the later editions of Erasmus.

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.

Erasmus instanced Arion as one of the traditional poet's topics that sound like historia rather than fabulae, though he misremembered that Augustine had taken the Arion story to be historia

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.

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.

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

Between 1794 and 1796 Erasmus Darwin wrote Zoonomia suggesting " that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament ... with the power of acquiring new parts " in response to stimuli, with each round of " improvements " being inherited by successive generations.

Brown's other work included a criticism of Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia ( 1798 ), and he was one of the first contributors to the Edinburgh Review, in the second number of which he published a criticism of Immanuel Kant's philosophy, based entirely on Villers's French account of it.

The scheme breathed the spirit of the Renaissance ; provision was made for the teaching of Greek, Erasmus praised the institution and Pole was one of its earliest fellows.

For the grant programs in Germany, the Freie Universität is one of the first choices both for the Erasmus and Tempus as well as for the Fulbright program and the international programs of the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD ).