Desiderius Erasmus is reported to have been born in Rotterdam on 28 October in the late 1460s. He was named after Saint Erasmus of Formiae, whom Erasmus's father Gerard personally favored. A 17th-century legend has it that

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Most likely in 1487, poverty forced Erasmus into the consecrated life as a canon regular of St. Augustine at the canonry of

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In 1495, with Bishop Henry's consent and a stipend, Erasmus went on to study at the University of Paris in the Collège de Montaigu,

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Attempts at impartiality in dispute
The Protestant Reformation began in the year following the publication of his edition of the Greek New Testament

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When his strength began to fail, he decided to accept an invitation by Queen Mary of Hungary, Regent of the Netherlands, to move from Freiburg to Brabant. However, during preparations for the move in 1536, he suddenly died from an attack of

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The popularity of his books is reflected in the number of editions and translations that have appeared since the sixteenth century. Ten columns of

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The first translation
In 1502, in Spain, Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneroshad put together a team of Spanish translators to create a compilation of the Bible in four languages: Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and Latin. Translators for Greek were

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