Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian (1466-1536)
He wrote the New Testament's first printed Greek edition — a scholarly act that armed the Protestant Reformation with its most dangerous weapon, even though he never left the Catholic Church and spent his last years arguing with Luther about free will.
Born around 1466 in Rotterdam, Erasmus became a Catholic priest who mastered Latin and Greek at a time when few could do both. His pioneering editions of the New Testament and the Church Fathers, dense with annotations, gave reformers the textual tools to challenge Rome — while his satirical *The Praise of Folly* and his treatises on education and style made him the most widely read scholar of the Northern Renaissance. He wanted the church reformed from within, not split, and when the Reformation came he tried to hold a middle ground: he wrote *On Free Will* directly against Luther's determini…
Sourced, dated quotes from Erasmus
There is no doubt about Martin Luther's marriage, but the rumour about his wife's early confinement is false; she is said however to be pregnant now.
I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
I have no patience with those who say that sexual excitement is shameful and that venereal stimuli have their origin not in nature, but in sin. Nothing is so far from the truth.
There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels — ut prae his lupanaria sint et magis sobria et magis pudica.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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