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Desiderius Erasmus: Engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1526, from his drawing of Erasmus made from life in 1520
Portrait from lifeCleveland Museum of Art

The Reformation and after

Desiderius Erasmus

c. 1466–1536 · Humanist scholar

Catholic

Published the Greek New Testament in print and called for a simpler, Scripture-centred faith and a reformed Church.