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Erasmus

Died in 1536

Erasmus was born in Rotterdam on 27 or 28 October, in 1466 according to some, in 1469 according to others, the natural son of a priest. A pupil at the school of Deventer, an orphan around 1483, he entered the Augustinian canons at Steyn and was ordained priest in 1492. Secretary to the Bishop of Cambrai, he studied in Paris, stayed in England, received a doctorate in theology at Turin in 1506, and lived in Leuven and then in Basel. When the city turned to the Reformation, in 1529, he settled in Freiburg im Breisgau. Back in Basel, he died there of dysentery on 12 July 1536.

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