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    Desiderius Erasmus was a 15th-16th century Dutch philosopher and scholar considered one of the greatest of the Northern Renaissance. He was originally trained as a Catholic priest but was an important figure in classical scholarship known for his pure Latin style. Using humanist techniques, he prepared important new editions of the Latin and Greek New Testament that raised questions influential in both the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. While critical of abuses within the Catholic Church, Erasmus sought reform from within and rejected Luther's doctrine of faith alone, keeping his distance from Protestant reformers and recognizing the pope's authority. He died suddenly in 1536 while preparing to return to Brabant.

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    Desiderius Erasmus was a 15th-16th century Dutch philosopher and scholar considered one of the greatest of the Northern Renaissance. He was originally trained as a Catholic priest but was an important figure in classical scholarship known for his pure Latin style. Using humanist techniques, he prepared important new editions of the Latin and Greek New Testament that raised questions influential in both the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. While critical of abuses within the Catholic Church, Erasmus sought reform from within and rejected Luther's doctrine of faith alone, keeping his distance from Protestant reformers and recognizing the pope's authority. He died suddenly in 1536 while preparing to return to Brabant.

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    Desiderius Erasmus was a 15th-16th century Dutch philosopher and scholar considered one of the greatest of the Northern Renaissance. He was originally trained as a Catholic priest but was an important figure in classical scholarship known for his pure Latin style. Using humanist techniques, he prepared important new editions of the Latin and Greek New Testament that raised questions influential in both the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. While critical of abuses within the Catholic Church, Erasmus sought reform from within and rejected Luther's doctrine of faith alone, keeping his distance from Protestant reformers and recognizing the pope's authority. He died suddenly in 1536 while preparing to return to Brabant.

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    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ˌdɛzɪˈdɪəriəs ɪˈræzməs/; 28 October 1466[3][4] – 12 July

    1536), known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam,[note 1] was a Dutch philosopher and


    Christian humanist who is widely considered to have been the greatest scholar of the
    northern Renaissance.[5] Originally trained as a Catholic priest, Erasmus was an important
    figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style. Among humanists he enjoyed
    the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the
    Christian humanists".[6] Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared
    important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that
    would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He
    also wrote On Free Will,[7] In Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in
    Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.

    Erasmus lived against the backdrop of the growing European religious Reformation. While he
    was critical of the abuses within the Catholic Church and called for reform, he nonetheless
    kept his distance from Luther, Henry VIII, and John Calvin and continued to recognise the
    authority of the pope, emphasizing a middle way with a deep respect for traditional faith,
    piety and grace, and rejecting Luther's emphasis on faith alone. Erasmus remained a
    member of the Catholic Church all his life,[8] remaining committed to reforming the church
    and its clerics' abuses from within. He also held to the doctrine of synergism, which some
    Reformers (Calvinists) rejected in favor of the doctrine of monergism. His middle road ("via
    media") approach disappointed, and even angered, scholars in both camps.

    Erasmus died suddenly in Basel in 1536 while preparing to return to Brabant and was buried
    in Basel Minster, the former cathedral of the city.[9] A bronze statue of Erasmus was erected
    in 1622 in his city of birth, replacing an earlier work in stone.

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