Erasmus
1466 to 1536
16 documented presences
15 places
Quo Fuit places 16 dated presences for Erasmus across 15 places, from 1466 to 1535. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Catholic theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Erasmus was documented, and when
1466 to 1476period
Gouda, South Hollandattested
“In 1476, at the age of 6 (or 9), his family moved to Gouda and he started at the school of Pieter Winckel, who later became his guardian (and, perhaps, squandered Erasmus and Peter's inheritance.) Historians who date his birth in 1466 ha…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1466 to 1476period
Utrechtattested
“In 1476, at the age of 6 (or 9), his family moved to Gouda and he started at the school of Pieter Winckel, who later became his guardian (and, perhaps, squandered Erasmus and Peter's inheritance.) Historians who date his birth in 1466 ha…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1487year
Gouda, South Hollandattested
“Eventually Erasmus moved to the same abbey as a postulant in or before 1487, around the age of 16 (or 19.) Poverty had forced the sickly, bookish, teenaged orphan Erasmus into the consecrated life, entering the novitiate in 1487 at the c…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1495year
Collège de Montaiguattested
“In 1495 with Bishop Henry's consent and a stipend, Erasmus went on to study at the University of Paris in the Collège de Montaigu, a centre of reforming zeal, under the direction of the ascetic Jan Standonck, of whose rigors he complained.”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1495year
Collattested
“In 1495 with Bishop Henry's consent and a stipend, Erasmus went on to study at the University of Paris in the Collège de Montaigu, a centre of reforming zeal, under the direction of the ascetic Jan Standonck, of whose rigors he complained.”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1501 to 1502period
Orléansattested
“Following his first trip to England, Erasmus returned first to poverty in Paris, where he started to compile the Adagio for his students, then to Orléans to escape the plague, and then to semi-monastic life, scholarly studies and writing…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1501 to 1502period
Parisattested
“Following his first trip to England, Erasmus returned first to poverty in Paris, where he started to compile the Adagio for his students, then to Orléans to escape the plague, and then to semi-monastic life, scholarly studies and writing…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1501 to 1502period
Englandattested
“Following his first trip to England, Erasmus returned first to poverty in Paris, where he started to compile the Adagio for his students, then to Orléans to escape the plague, and then to semi-monastic life, scholarly studies and writing…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1501 to 1502period
Franceattested
“Following his first trip to England, Erasmus returned first to poverty in Paris, where he started to compile the Adagio for his students, then to Orléans to escape the plague, and then to semi-monastic life, scholarly studies and writing…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1504year
Stein, South Hollandattested
“Rogerus, who became prior at Stein in 1504, and Erasmus corresponded over the years, with Rogerus demanding Erasmus return after his studies were complete.”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1509year
Romeattested
“He found employment tutoring and escorting Scottish nobleman Alexander Stewart, the 24-year-old Archbishop of St Andrews, through Padua, Florence, and Siena, Erasmus made it to Rome in 1509, visiting three times and seeking the acquainta…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1509year
Paduaattested
“He found employment tutoring and escorting Scottish nobleman Alexander Stewart, the 24-year-old Archbishop of St Andrews, through Padua, Florence, and Siena, Erasmus made it to Rome in 1509, visiting three times and seeking the acquainta…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1517year
Complutense University of Madridattested
“In 1517, he supported the foundation at the university of the Collegium Trilingue for the study of Hebrew, Latin, and Greek—after the model of Cisneros' College of the Three Languages at the University of Alcalá—financed by his late frie…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1524year
Italyattested
“Erasmus's own story, in the possibly forged 1524 ' was along the lines that his parents were engaged, with the formal marriage blocked by his relatives (presumably a young widow or unmarried mother with a child was not an advantageous ma…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1529 to 1534period
1535year
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Places Erasmus is documented in
Gouda, South Holland2 presences · 1466 to 1487
Coll1 presence · 1495England1 presence · 1501France1 presence · 1501Italy1 presence · 1524Padua1 presence · 1509Paris1 presence · 1501Rome1 presence · 1509Utrecht1 presence · 1466Collège de Montaigu1 presence · 1495
Complutense University of Madrid1 presence · 1517
Duchy of Brabant1 presence · 1535
Other places tied to Erasmus in the record
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1478year
Deventermentioned
“In 1478, at the age of 9 (or 12), he and his older brother Peter were sent to one of the best Latin schools in the Netherlands, located at Deventer and owned by the chapter clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk (St.”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1478year
Netherlandsmentioned
“In 1478, at the age of 9 (or 12), he and his older brother Peter were sent to one of the best Latin schools in the Netherlands, located at Deventer and owned by the chapter clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk (St.”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1484year
's-Hertogenboschmentioned
“In 1484, around the age 14 (or 17), he and his brother went to a cheaper grammar school or seminary at 's-Hertogenbosch run by the Brethren of the Common Life: Erasmus's Epistle to Grunnius (see above) satirises them as the "Collationary…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1493year
Duchy of Brabantmentioned
“In 1493, his prior arranged for him to leave the Stein house and move to Brabant, to take up the post of Latin Secretary to the ambitious Bishop of Cambrai, Henry of Bergen, on account of his great skill in Latin and his reputation as a…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1499year
Baselmentioned
“* First was his medieval Dutch childhood, ending with him being orphaned and impoverished; * Second, his struggling years as a canon (a kind of semi-monk), a clerk, a priest, a failing and sickly university student, a would-be poet, and…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1499year
Freiburgmentioned
“* First was his medieval Dutch childhood, ending with him being orphaned and impoverished; * Second, his struggling years as a canon (a kind of semi-monk), a clerk, a priest, a failing and sickly university student, a would-be poet, and…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1499year
Venicementioned
“* First was his medieval Dutch childhood, ending with him being orphaned and impoverished; * Second, his struggling years as a canon (a kind of semi-monk), a clerk, a priest, a failing and sickly university student, a would-be poet, and…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1499year
Englandmentioned
“In 1499 he was invited to England by Blount, who offered to accompany him on his trip to England.”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1499year
University of Oxfordmentioned
“He reported gaining new skills important in his future: becoming "a better horse-man, and a tolerable courtier." During his first visit to England in 1499, he stayed for two months at the University of Oxford, at St Mary's College, the c…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1499year
St Mary's College, Oxfordmentioned
“He reported gaining new skills important in his future: becoming "a better horse-man, and a tolerable courtier." During his first visit to England in 1499, he stayed for two months at the University of Oxford, at St Mary's College, the c…”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1500year
Stein, South Hollandmentioned
“From 1500, he avoided returning to the canonry at Stein even insisting the diet and hours would kill him, though he did stay with other Augustinian communities and at monasteries of other orders in his travels.”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1502year
Duchy of Brabantmentioned
“In 1502, Erasmus went to Brabant, ultimately to the university at Louvain.”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
1502year
Louvainmentioned
“In 1502, Erasmus went to Brabant, ultimately to the university at Louvain.”
source: Wikipedia: Erasmus
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1511 to 1515period
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