Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Date of Birth: 27 October 1467
Place of Birth: Rotterdam
Date of Death: 12 July 1536
Place of Death: Basel
Biography
Erasmus’s father, Gerard, was a priest in Gouda, now in the Netherlands, then part of the territory of the Count of Holland, one of the petty semi-independent states within the German Empire. His mother, Margaret, was the daughter of a physician in Zevenber…