Desiderius Erasmus
was one of the great humanists. He was well
educated and practice scholasticism. He was also a great writer, who wrote
books of many types. He is even called the greatest European scholar of the
16th century (Britannica Macropedia). He was also courageous, as he
criticized the Church harshly. It was said by R. C. Trench that "Erasmus
laid the egg of the Reformation and Luther hatched it."
Erasmus was the illegitimate son of a priest named Gerard. This fact
would haunt him for his entire life. He feared that, if this fact was
widely known, his life would be ruined. T ....
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