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Desiderius Erasmus

1466 - 1536

About the Author

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Christian, humanist scholar; the first editor of the New Testament; a classicist; and a leading voice in the theological debates of the early Reformation in northern Europe. He contended with the reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546), emphasizing the importance of free will in human actions against Luther’s belief in the absolute bondage of the will to sin.

In The Library:

• author: The Colloquies 2 vols. (1518)
• author: The Colloquies vol. 1 (1518)
• author: The Colloquies vol. 2 (1518)
• author: The Complaint of Peace (1521)
• author: In Praise of Folly (1511)
• author: The Manual of a Christian Knight (1501)
• author: The Works of Vicesimus Knox, vol. 5 (Personal Nobility, Spirit of Despotism, Antipolemus) (1824)

Quotations:

• Erasmus argues that Philosophizing is all very well but there is also a need for there to be a Philosopher of the Kitchen (1518) (22 November, 2004)
• Erasmus has the personification of Peace come down to earth to see with dismay how war ravages human societies (1521) (23 May, 2005)
• The 3rd Day of Christmas: Erasmus stands against war and for peace on earth (16th century) (30 December, 2012)