Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October 1466^[1][2] – 12 Julie 1536), kent as Erasmus or Erasmus o Rotterdam,^{[note 1]} wis a Dutch/Netherlandish Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social creetic, teacher, an theologian.

Erasmus
Portrait o Erasmus o Rotterdam (1523) bi Hans Holbein the Younger
Born	c. 28 October 1466(1466-10-28) Rotterdam or Gouda, Burgundian Netherlands
Dee'd	12 Julie 1536(1536-07-12) (aged 69) Basel, Auld Swiss Confederacy
Ither names	Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Erasmus o Rotterdam
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge Collège de Montaigu, Paris Varsity o Turin
Era	Renaissance filosofie
Region	Wastren filosofie
Institutions	Varsity o Leuven
Main interests	Christian filosofie Renaissance humanism
Notable ideas	Erasmian pronunciation
Influences Epicureanism, Cicero, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, John Colet, Alexander Hegius, Jan Standonck
Influenced Thomas More, Damião de Góis, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, Jacob Milich, Wolfgang Capito, John Colet

Notes

1. Erasmus wis his baptismal name, gien efter St. Erasmus o Formiae. Desiderius wis a sel-adoptit addeetional name, which he uised frae 1496. The Roterodamus wis a scholarly name meanin "frae Rotterdam", tho the Laitin genitive would be Roterdamensis.