About Alardus of Amsterdam
Lived 1491 – 1544 (aged 52–53). Alardus of Amsterdam was a scholar, publisher, renaissance humanist, philosopher, humanist and catholic theologian.
Alardus or Alaard of Amsterdam (1491–1544) was a Dutch humanist scholar, known as an editor of Rodolphus Agricola and Erasmus.
Life Alardus was born in Amsterdam, a relation of Meynard Man. His teachers may have included Willem Hermans and Alexander Hegius. By 1511 he was teaching in Alkmaar, where he was a student of Murmellius who became the headmaster.
Alardus then led an itinerant life, tracking down Agricola's works left in manuscript. He was at one point on good terms with Erasmus, but they later fell out. His major work was the two-volume collected edition of Agricola of 1539.
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Dutch humanist (1491-1544)
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Alardus of Amsterdam was born in 1491 in Amsterdam.
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Alardus of Amsterdam died in 1544 in Leuven.
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Alardus of Amsterdam was a scholar, publisher, renaissance humanist, philosopher, humanist and catholic theologian.
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