Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist wiring party he proclaimed the emancipation of

he proclaimed the emancipation of all slaves in the southern Confederate states and later that year restated his anti-slavery views in the Gettysburg Address

is the former premier

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Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist wiring party he proclaimed the emancipation ofDesiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist, (1893). Erasmus (1497 1543) was probably the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance. A believer in the superiority of religious practices in earlier times, he was an advocate of reform of the Church. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.