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The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus wrote to her: " For a long time I have cherished all the many excellent gifts that God bestowed upon you ; prudence worthy of a philosopher ; chastity ; moderation ; piety ; an invincible strength of soul, and a marvelous contempt for all the vanities of this world.
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Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738 ) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame.
– 12 July 1536 ), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.
Only in 1544 did a version of the standard Greek text become available, edited by the Dutch humanist Arnoldus Arlenius.
In his Description of Africa ( 1668 ), the humanist Dutch Olfert Dapper gives the etymology of the name given to it by his countrymen, Goe-ree Goede Reede, that is to say " good road ".
* 1738 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician ( b. 1668 )
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.
* September 23 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician ( b. 1668 )
* June 23 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch physician, linguist, and humanist ( d. 1572 )
* December 31 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician ( d. 1738 )
** Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar and humanist ( d. 1485 )
Adages were collected and used by ancient writers and their work and writings inspired the Dutch humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus to produce a massive collection of Adagia in the early sixteenth century.
The Dutch humanist and theologian Erasmus stayed at Ordsall Hall in 1499, and described it thus:
* Rodolphus Agricola ( 1443-1485 ), Dutch scholar and humanist
The series originated with the first printed Greek New Testament, published in 1516 — a work undertaken in Basel by the Dutch Catholic scholar and humanist Desiderius Erasmus.
The Dutch humanist Erasmus had been working for years on two projects: a collation of Greek texts and a fresh Latin New Testament.
** Arnoldus Arlenius, Dutch humanist philosopher and poet ( born c. 1510 )
* June 28-Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch humanist writer and linguist ( born 1519 )
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( 1466 – 1536 ), was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic whose works laid a foundation for religious toleration.
* Desiderius Erasmus ( Dutch Christian humanist )
Scholars like the Dutch humanist, Desiderius Erasmus ( 1467 – 1563 ), denounced the church and the way it taught.
* Erasmus of Rotterdam ( 1466 – 1536 ) – Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, theologian.
Desiderius Erasmus, the great Dutch humanist, even prepared a Greek edition of Aristotle, and eventually those teaching philosophy in the universities had to at least pretend that they knew Greek.
# Herman Boerhaave – Dutch humanist and physician
# Erasmus of Rotterdam – Dutch humanist
In his work on the cosmological systems of antiquity, the Dutch Renaissance humanist Gerardus Vossius deals extensively with Caelus and his duality as both a god and a place that the other gods inhabit.
Dutch and Desiderius
* July 12 – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher ( b. c. 1466 )
In Praise of Folly ( Greek title: Morias Enkomion ( Μωρίας Εγκώμιον ), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid ) is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511.
The Programme is named after the Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, known as an opponent of dogmatism, who lived and worked in many places in Europe to expand his knowledge and gain new insights, and who left his fortune to the University of Basel in Switzerland.
Adagia ( adagium is the singular form and adagia is the plural ) is an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus.
The Erasmus programme ( named after Desiderius Erasmus, the 16th century Dutch humanist and theologian ), has been the icon of university exchange programmes since its launch in 1987.
* Desiderius Erasmus ( circa 1466-1536 ), Dutch humanist and theologian
Dutch and Erasmus
* October 27 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher ( d. 1536 )
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.
* 1983, winner of the Dutch Erasmus Prize, for contributions to European literature and culture
John Blackthorne, an English pilot serving on the Dutch warship Erasmus, is the first English pilot to reach Japan.
He wrote an entirely fictitious account of the Java upas tree, derived from an imaginary Dutch traveller, which imposed on Erasmus Darwin, and he hoaxed the Society of Antiquaries with the tombstone of Hardicanute, supposed to have been dug up in Kennington, but really engraved with an Anglo-Saxon inscription of his own invention.
Robbers named the company after the old Dutch printers family Elzevir, which, for example, published the works of Erasmus in 1587.
The university was 2nd among Dutch universities, after Erasmus University Rotterdam, in five fields and placed it in the top 50 internationally in seven fields in the 2011 QS World University Rankings by Subject in the fields of Linguistics, Sociology, Philosophy, Geography, Science, Economics & Econometrics, and Accountancy & Finance.
Well-known institutions within Flatbush include Erasmus Hall High School, Parade Grounds, the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church, Brooklyn College, and Ebbets Field ( demolished in 1960 ), the last Brooklyn home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, as well as Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and the Mirrer Yeshiva.
Dutch and wrote
They started out translating N. W. A songs to Dutch, though later wrote their own rhymes in Dutch.
Around the same time, the poet Henric van Veldeke wrote a legend of Saint Servatius, one of the earliest works in Dutch literature.
American marathon runner Kenny Moore, who wrote about the incident for Sports Illustrated, quoted Dutch distance runner Jos Hermens as saying, “ You give a party, and someone is killed at the party, you don't continue the party.
John Bellenden Ker (? 1765 – 1842 ), for example, wrote four volumes arguing that English nursery rhymes were actually written in ' Low Saxon ', a hypothetical early form of Dutch.
As he wrote to the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch West India Company in 1654 he hoped that " the deceitful race, – such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ, – be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
He wrote to the Dutch West India Company, " Jewish settlers should not be granted the same liberties enjoyed by Jews in Holland, lest members of other persecuted minority groups, such as Roman Catholics, be attracted to the colony.
In 1969 Koolhaas co-wrote The White Slave, a Dutch film noir, and later wrote an unproduced script for American soft-porn king Russ Meyer.
About this Second Anglo-Dutch War Pepys wrote: " In all things, in wisdom, courage, force and success, the Dutch have the best of us and do end the war with victory on their side ".
Representatives of the four largest Dutch cities wrote a letter stating that it would not be in their interest to ban squatting.
In a 1976 interview with Dutch music magazine Oor, the author wrote that Vangelis had a wife named Veronique Skawinska who was a photographer who had done some album art work for Vangelis.
Problems remain, mainly in dating those from Arles, although it is known that during that period, van Gogh wrote 200 letters to friends in Dutch, French and English.
Hence some believe that the lyrics of the Dutch national anthem were the creation of someone who just wrote one poem for the occasion and then disappeared from history.
" Historian Geoffrey Blainey wrote that the material standard of living for Aborigines was generally high, higher than that of many Europeans living at the time of the Dutch discovery of Australia.
In 1992 Fortuyn wrote " Aan het volk van Nederland " ( To the people of the Netherlands ), declaring he was the successor to the charismatic but controversial 18th-century Dutch politician Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol.
Fortuyn wrote Against the Islamization of Our Culture ( 1997 ) ( in Dutch ).
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke ( 1798 – 1872 ) wrote the Dutch Constitution in April 1848 in his house at Garenmarkt 9 in Leiden.
Hacking wrote " And neither the Dutch book argument, nor any other in the personalist arsenal of proofs of the probability axioms, entails the dynamic assumption.
Leicester wrote to Burghley and Walsingham, explaining why he believed the Dutch importunities should be answered favourably.
The Dutch nobility were astonished: even the Prince of Orange would not have dared such an outrage, Leicester was warned ; but, he wrote, he would not be intimidated by the fact that Hemart " was of a good house ".
In the 19th and 20th centuries, European explorers wrote of being welcomed as kin by the aborigines who thought they were the Dutch, who had promised to return.
Louis wrote to Napoleon after the latter's defeat in Russia to request that the Dutch throne be restored to him ; however, Napoleon refused.
Louis wrote to Napoleon after the latter's defeat in Russia to request that the Dutch throne be restored to him.
Before 1881, when Charles Daniel Dance wrote his Chapters From a Guianese Log-book, he noticed, The children all talked a Dutch patois besides the Arawak Indian tongue ; and with a Dutch teacher to instruct them, it is not difficult to conceive the manner in which they read their English lessons.
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