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Born March 16, 1478 • Ulm
Died November 8, 1527 (aged 49) • Dresden
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino
Italian philosopher and theologian
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
John Scotus Erigena
Irish philosopher
J.A. Bengel
German theologian
Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
German poet
Domenico Ghirlandaio: St. Jerome in His Study
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus
Frankish archbishop
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
Tyrannius Rufinus
Roman priest and writer
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop
Burnett Hillman Streeter
British theologian
William Salesbury
Welsh lexicographer
Richard Francis Weymouth
British philologist and biblical scholar
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
Nicholas Oresme
French bishop, scholar, and economist
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic