Desiderius Erasmus is reported to have been born in Rotterdam on 27 or 28 October ("the vigil of Simon and Jude")[6] in the late 1460s. He was named[note 4] after Erasmus of Formiae, whom Erasmus' father Gerard (Gerardus Helye)[7] personally favored.[8][9] Although associated clos...
Never had Erasmus worked so carefully. `If I told what sweat it cost me, no one would believe me.' He had collated many Greek MSS. of the New Testament, and was surrounded by all the commentaries and translations, by the writings of Origen, Cyprian, Ambrose, Basil, Chrysostom, Cyril, ...