Erasmus de

Rotterdam

Who was him?Erasmo de Rotterdam was born on the

28th October of 1466 in Rotterdam. He

died in the year 1536 in Basilea

His full name was Geert Geertsen.

He was Dutch.

He was an important humanist (vision

of the world is focused on the human

being) and philosopher (a movement

that tries to answer questions without

having a scientific answer.)

Who was him?

He studied philology (discipline that

studies the structure and the

evolution of a language for

interpretation) and theology

(discipline that examines the

doctrine about god)

-He was the author of important

works written in Latin.

-He travelled a lot.

Literary begginings

- His popularity and the appearance of the

Lutheranism, starts to have many conflicts

because of its ambiguous attitude towards the

arguments between the Orthodox and

Reformers.

- He started writing because he considered that

if someone doesn’t write well, is always wrong

expressing himself or transmiting a message.

Some of his works

Manual del

caballero cristiano

(1503)

Elogio de

la locura

(1511)

Some of his works

Escritos

(1516)

Sobre el

libre

albedrío

(1526)

Why was he important?

He was important because he defended the need

to increase the morality of the clergy and

pleaded for an intimate and personal

religiousness. He was a great promoter of

historical and phisiological studies.

Why was he important?

- He was considered the representative of the

humanist thinking during the Renaissance.

-He was looking to reform the church and

society in terms of searching the cultural

progress of mankind.

Curiosities

-He was a very honored man, there is even a

University with his name.

Curiosities

-In 1543 his books

were prohibited and

publicly burnt by

order of the Church.

Text of

Erasmus

appraised

by the

Inquisition.

Phrases

“Prevention is better than cure”

(Más vale prevenir que curar.)

"He has one foot in the grave."

(Tiene un pie en la tumba)

"Having eyes in the nape of the neck".

(Tener ojos en la nuca)