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ERASMUS, DESIOERIUS (1466-1536), Dutch scholar and theologian, was born on the night of the 27/28th of October, probably in 1466; but his statements about his age are conflicting, and in view of his own uncertainty (Ep. x. 29: 466) and the weakness of his memo ...

ERASTUS, THOMAS (1524-1583), German-Swiss theologian, whose surname was LUber, Lieber, or Liebler, was born of poor parents on the 7th of September 1524, probably at Baden, canton of Aargau, Switzerland. In 1540 he was studying theology at Basel. The plague of

... g on the 7th of August 1488, educated there and at Ulm (1502), in Italy (he met Erasmus in Rome), at Bern (1508), Leipzig (1510) and Wittenberg (1513)According to his son, he entered the ministry in August 1514, at Bern. He was for some time a military chaplai ...

... (T«xv»j 'Prfropucfi). But the Rhetoric to AlexiinJer was considered spurious by Erasmus, for the inadequate reasons that it has a preface and is not mentioned in the list of Diogenes Laertius, and was assigned by Petrus Yictorius, in his preface to the Rhetori ...

... thor of a mystical and allegorical commentary on the Psalms, first published by Erasmus in 1522, and by him attributed to the elder Arnobius. It has been frequently reprinted, and in the edition of De la Barre, 1580, is accompanied by some notes on the Gospels ...

... ance as a truth. The Tabulae Prutenicae, calculated on Copernican principles by Erasmus Reinhold (1511-1553), appeared in 1551. Although they represented celestial movements far better than the Alfonsine Tables, large discrepancies were still apparent, and the ...

... bbey, founded in 1240 by Donough Carbrac O'Brien; a school on the foundation of Erasmus Smith, and various county buildings. The abbey, though greatly mutilated, is full of interesting details, and includes a lofty tower, a marble screen, a chapter-house, a no ...

... hemselves. G. Spence, in his book on the Equitable Jurisdiction of EQUIVALENT- -ERASMUS lh< Court of CkaiKfry, quotes a case in the reign of Charles II., in which chief justice Vaughan said: " I MKDiIrr to hear of citing of precedents in matter of equity, fur ...

... ng in 1773) published in the London Magazine, December 1783, and popularized by Erasmus Darwin in " Loves of the Plants " (Botanic Garden, pt. ii.). The tree was said to destroy all animal life within a radius of 15 m. or more. The poison was fetched by condem ...