Medieval · 1466–1536
Who influenced Erasmus?
Influences and legacy
Prince of the humanists: the philosophy of Christ, and the folly of learned pedantry.
Erasmus was influenced by Lorenzo Valla, and went on to influence Michel de Montaigne. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Read on Wikipedia Portrait: Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain See the whole map
Who was Erasmus?
Erasmus of Rotterdam was a Dutch humanist, theologian and Catholic priest, and through his writings and translations one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance. He wrote an easy, natural Latin and used humanist methods on texts to prepare new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament and the Church Fathers, with notes that mattered to Protestant and Catholic reformers alike.
His other books include The Praise of Folly, On Free Will and The Complaint of Peace. He moved often and wrote to a wide circle that took in kings and popes. He stayed in the Catholic Church and wanted to reform it from within, argued for tolerance on matters he thought indifferent, and defended free will against Luther and Calvin. That middle road angered partisans on both sides.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Erasmus?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Lorenzo Valla c. 1407–1457
Who did Erasmus influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Erasmus.
- Michel de Montaigne 1533–1592
Two steps away from Erasmus
The second generation
Contemporaries of Erasmus
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Erasmus, with no direct line between them.
- Niccolò Machiavelli 1469–1527
- Pico della Mirandola 1463–1494
Erasmus by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 1
- Thinkers downstream
- 135
- Wikipedia languages
- 104 — #7 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Legendary
Questions about Erasmus
- Who influenced Erasmus?
- Lorenzo Valla.
- Who did Erasmus influence?
- Michel de Montaigne.
- When did Erasmus live?
- 1466–1536. The map files Erasmus under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Erasmus card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Erasmus in 104 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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