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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Erasmus from (of?) Rotterdam

Hello. I hope you're all enjoying your weekend. In between college football games yesterday I did a little extra research on Erasmus, which is a subject that has defined Labor Day for the last few years now. Although there are plenty of academic biographies of the man, my favorite remains Stefan Zweig's narrative paean, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1934). Zweig was a Viennese writer from the early twentieth century who was clairvoyant enough to see what was about to happen to his homeland (and people like him within it), and fled to London the year he published this book.

Here is an excerpt (I took photographs of the pages, as I lack a scanner) from the book, and the accompanying Hans Holbein portrait it discusses (click on photos to enlarge if necessary):






And here is a link to an interesting article about an international project involving the translation of Erasmus' works:
http://www.dickinson.edu/story.aspx?id=10737429029

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