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One exception about whom Henrik Van Loon wrote about so charmingly in his Lives, is Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536). Donald King checked out the rare, 17th century text by Dutch theologian Desiderius Erasmus sometime in 1945. Humanist scholars, such as Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, and William Tyndale worked on new translations of the Bible while Cardinal Ximenes worked a more subtly presented new translation into a new polyglot Bible in Alcala, Spain. |
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Desiderius Erasmus - Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)