. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). 46 GROUP II THE LEADING AGENTS IN RESTORINGCHRISTIANITY AMONG THE GERMAN PEOPLE I. DESIDERIUS ERASMUSn. MARTIN LUTHER III. PHILIP MELANCHTHON IV. PRINCE GEORGE OF ANHALTV. JOHN BUGENHAGEN VI. JUSTUS JONASVII. JOHN FORSTERVIII. GASPAR CRUCIGERIX. JOACHIM CAMERARIUSX. JAMES STURMXL MARTIN BUCERXII. PAUL FAGIUSXIIL WOLFGANG MUSCULUSXIV. ANDREW GERARDXV. JOHN SLEIDAN. ERASMUS. Erasmus (Desyderius Erasmus) IN the second
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). 46 GROUP II THE LEADING AGENTS IN RESTORINGCHRISTIANITY AMONG THE GERMAN PEOPLE I. DESIDERIUS ERASMUSn. MARTIN LUTHER III. PHILIP MELANCHTHON IV. PRINCE GEORGE OF ANHALTV. JOHN BUGENHAGEN VI. JUSTUS JONASVII. JOHN FORSTERVIII. GASPAR CRUCIGERIX. JOACHIM CAMERARIUSX. JAMES STURMXL MARTIN BUCERXII. PAUL FAGIUSXIIL WOLFGANG MUSCULUSXIV. ANDREW GERARDXV. JOHN SLEIDAN. ERASMUS. Erasmus (Desyderius Erasmus) IN the second half of the fifteenth century, therelived in Rotterdam a well-to-do couple namedGerrard or Gerhard. The etymology of thefamily name suggests desire ; and so, when asecond son was born in 1467, the word was,according to a practice of that age. Latinised intoDesiderius, and afterwards Grascised into earliest years Desiderius Gerrard, or Erasmus,had a passion for reading, and for writing prose andverse. When in his teens he lost both parents ; anddishonest guardians, having robbed him of hispatrimony, gave him no peace till he became anAugustinian monk. The youth escaped frommonastic thraldom and stagnation through thekind offices of the Bishop of Cambray, whoobtained permission from the Vatican to employthe Dutch monk as private secretary. With the 49 E Bezas Portraits of Reformers consent and assistance of the friendly prelate,Erasmus became a student at Paris, where hesupplemented his patrons limited allowance byacting a
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