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Desiderius Erasmus
1466 – 1536
Dutch

Scholar. He is considered a founder of Western humanism, but he also provided the first English version of the New Testament.

Contemporaries
1519–1589Catherine de' Medici
1432–1519Leonardo da Vinci
1484–1531Huldrych Zwingli
1420–1498Tomás de Torquemada
1525–1562Laelius Socinus
1452–1485Richard III
1527–1598Phillip II
1478–1535Sir Thomas More
1492–1549Margaret of Angouleme
?–1471Sir Thomas Malory
1491–1556St. Ignatius of Loyola
1379–1471Thomas Kempis
1524–1583Thomas Erastus
1490–1546Sir Thomas Elyot
1504–1575Heinrich Bullinger