1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
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 1 544 drove him to Bologna and thence to Padua as student of philosophy and medicine. In 1553 he became physician to the count of Henneberg, Saxe-Meiningen, and in 1558 held the same post with the elector-palatine, Otto Heinrich, being at the same time profes…
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