His parents names were Roger Gerherd and Margaret Brandt. Watch Queue Queue. ... Erasmus University hosts its very own Sports Centre right on campus. His father was a priest. After both his parents died when he was a boy, his guardians sent him to a religious school. As a child he studied at Gouda, and from 1475 to 1483 he studied at Deventer with the Brethren of the Common Life, a pious, modernist-humanist order. Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, theologian and teacher who became a leading figure of the early humanist movement. Desiderius Erasmus was born on October 27 in the second half of the 1460s in Rotterdam, Holland (now in the Netherlands). He was both a Catholic Priest and a renowned humanist. His criticisms of church practices lay the seeds of the Protestant Reformation, though Erasmus never subscribed to the direction of Luther’s Reformation and he remained a committed Catholic throughout his life. This video is unavailable. Erasmus and an elder brother were brought up at Gouda by their mother. His reputation during his lifetime reached the loftiest heights and sunk to unexpected lows during the Lutheran crisis. Erasmus was a classical scholar and wrote in a pure Latin style. Dezember 2016 wurde (im dritten Anlauf) mit 34 Gründungsmitgliedern schließlich die Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung als Stiftung in Frankfurt am Main gegründet. Erasmus then entered a monastery and became a priest in the Augustinian order. Desiderius Erasmus is considered one of the greatest minds in history; he was a humanist scholar, a theologian, a writer, a teacher, and, as he put it, "a citizen of the world." /12.Juli 1536 in Basel) war ein bedeutender Gelehrter des Renaissance-Humanismus.Er wurde in den Burgundischen Niederlanden, einem Teil des Heiligen Römischen Reiches, geboren und war Theologe, Priester, Augustiner-Chorherr, Philologe und Autor zahlreicher Bücher. These 10 little-known facts about Rotterdam will make you ask yourself: how did I not know that? Erasmus+, or Erasmus Plus, is the new programme combining all the EU's current schemes for education, training, youth and sport, which was started in January 2014. Of the Erasmus graduate which surveyed in the last Erasmus Impact Study, 77% held positions with leadership components 10 years after graduation. Watch Queue Queue Synopsis. Oktober 1466/1467/1469, wahrscheinlich in Rotterdam; † 11. Desiderius Erasmus was born on October 28 1466. The most brilliant and most important leader of German humanism, b. at Rotterdam, Holland, 28 October, probably in 1466; d. at Basle, Switzerland, 12 July, 1536.He was the illegitimate child of Gerard, a citizen of Gouda, and Margaretha Rogers, and at a later date latinized his name as Desiderius Erasmus. He was the illegitimate child of Gerard, a citizen of Gouda, and Margaretha Rogers, and at a later date latinized his name as Desiderius Erasmus. Both their names meaning "beloved" in Latin. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam was one of Europe's most famous and influential scholars. Desiderius Erasmus von Rotterdam (* vermutlich am 28. 40% have changed their country of residence or work at least once since graduation. Counted amongst the most controversial early Renaissance figures, Erasmus all through his life worked for a middle way between Roman Catholicism and … Anfang April 2017 wurde er jedoch wegen angeblich nicht abgesprochenen Vorgehens wieder abgewählt. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s /; 28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. Discover facts about the life of Desiderius Erasmus, the writer of 'The Praise of Folie' and other intellectual works. ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS(1466?–1536) Desiderius Erasmus, the great Renaissance humanist and scholar, was born at either Rotterdam or Gouda in Holland, the illegitimate son of a priest. As a child he studied at Gouda, and from 1475 to 1483 he studied at Deventer with the Brethren of the Common Life, a pious, modernist-humanist order. The Erasmus Programme (EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students) is a European Union (EU) student exchange programme established in 1987.