Erasmus of Rotterdam

Erasmus of Rotterdam was one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Although in our day his books lie on bookshelves collecting dust, in his time he was internationally famous. It is questionable, says his biographer, Stefan Zweig, whether Erasmus was a man of first-class intelligence, but what we can be sure of is that he was a man of unbelievable wide knowledge who published books in almost every field of human thought. Erasmus was probably born in the mid 1460’s. His biographers do not...