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Born March 16, 1478 • Ulm
Died November 8, 1527 (aged 49) • Dresden
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
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Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
Engraved portrait of Marsilio Ficino wearing a cap and cloak, shown in three-quarter view looking over his shoulder, with detailed lines and shading.
Marsilio Ficino
Italian philosopher and theologian
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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John Scotus Erigena
Irish philosopher
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J.A. Bengel
German theologian
Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
German poet
José de Ribera: Saint Jerome
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus
Frankish archbishop
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Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
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Tyrannius Rufinus
Roman priest and writer
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Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop
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Burnett Hillman Streeter
British theologian
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William Salesbury
Welsh lexicographer
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Richard Francis Weymouth
British philologist and biblical scholar
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Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
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Nicholas Oresme
French bishop, scholar, and economist
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic