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Who is Erasmus ?

Erasmus De Rotterdam

Erasmus De Rotterdam born in Roterdam on October 28,1466 and died in Basel on July 12, 1536, he was known by Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus, he was son of a gouda priest and a woman of bourgeois origin.

Where he comes from?

The begining of his formation

The beginings of his formation

In the years 1499 and 1500 Erasmus had a trip to London, where he had the opportunity to meet John Colet University of Oxford, where he was taught many things about the life of St. Paul and many other things, he got a long conversation about how to affect a truly humanistic reading on the Bible. Which made it deeply mark in his way of thinking.

The success of Erasmus rotterdam

In the same year of 1500, Erasmus obtained a collaboration from Publius Fausto Andrelini, where he was able to write his "Adagios" (Fabulas), which are more than 800 sayings and morals of the traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, along with comments on their origin and meaning. Today some of his sayings are still used.

The succes of Erasmus

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Erasmus worked on the ''Adagios'' for the rest of his life, to the point of collection he had grown and already contained 3,400 in 1521, being 4,251 at the time of his death. He successfully achieved his book and came to count more than 60 editions, an unprecedented figure for the year 1500.

His profession

Erasmus began to teach as a full professor of theology at the University of Cambridge in England, where he met important friends he maintained throughout his life such as Thomas More or Thomas Linacre. He was offered a lifetime job at Quee's College, Cambridge University and it is possible that, if he wished, he may have spent the rest of his life teaching Sacred Sciences, However, his restless and traveling nature and his curious spirit, made decline that position and all those that were offered to him henceforth.

Where did he formate

Between 1506 and 1509 Erasmus lived in Italy, and studied in the school Saint Ledwin between years 1478 and 1483 in Deventer. Most of the time working in a printing press. From these connections with universities and with writers who went to press, Erasmus began to surround himself with like-minded people who rejected the abuses of the church.

Erasmus fame

Erasmus Fame

Erasmus' fame spread throughout Italy, and his ideas about interactual and religious evolution began to be known and discussed, however, not everyone sympathized with Erasmus, some rejected the ideas of Erasmus, and these opponents began to criticize him both in public and also in private.This may have been the reason why Erudius left Italy and moved to Basel. We do not know which of the three educational institutions where Erasmus was interned was the cause of the evil and deep rejection that he was feeling all his life towards authority. Perhaps it could have been the primary school in its youth, perhaps the Augustinian convent in its adolescence, or it could have been the university of Paris, in the mid-1940s.

Erasmus critiques

Thanks to the fact that Erasmus had a reflexive thought because of his enviroment and people with he had contact he developed a rejection for the Catholic Church and concluded that colleges and universities prevented people form thinking freely, that's when the critiques begin.

Since he felt that rejection of the churches, he sought greater freedom by reading classic writters who lived when Cristianity had not triumphed.

No one was able to see his way of thinking until the day he died.

He didn't liked the way that diciplne was applied to children. In the university he realized that instead of teaching new ideas there was taught where outdated teories of the first centuries of the Middle Ages instead that the children had a advanced education it was really bad, none of the critiques that he received changed his way of thinking

Erasmus and the Church

Erasmus and the church

Erasmus took the decision that he could do something to reverse the situation: with the ideas of his friends from the Augustinian monasteries and some other ideas of John Colet,He began to carefully analyze the most important books of the ancient Grienga and Roman civilizations, trying to modernize and modernize their contents and trying to apply them to the life of the society in which he lived. trying to extract the most significant from those ancient but impressively brilliant texts, so that anyone can understand them, penetrate their meaning. I never cease to fight against the spiritual prison that I observed everywhere, in all the educational, intellectual, political and social institutions of my time. This would cause him and start him numerous problems throughout his great career.

He began to write at an adult age and late for normal at that time, because he considered that who does not know how to write well, always makes mistakes when expressing himself or transmitting a message. Therefore, he was concerned first with becoming a true master in the use of prose in the Latin language. It was the clearest language he found, the most appropriate for transmitting complex ideas, and the most useful for transmitting his ideas throughout Europe. Only then did he dare to put his beliefs in writing.

Erasmus' polemics against the Church have often been misinterpreted. Erasmus agreed with Catholic doctrine and with the form of organization of the Church. What bothered him were routine, superstitions, ignorance, he wanted to use his university education and his ability to transmit ideas, to clarify Catholic doctrines and make the Church allow more freedom of thought. Erasmus believed it his obligation to free the Church from the paralysis to which the rigidity of thought and institutions of the Middle Ages condemned it, since he believed that the Renaissance was a fundamentally new way of thinking.

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