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Erasmus and the Age of Reformation : with a selection from the letters of Erasmus

By Johan Huizinga

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1984
ISBN
0691054215 9780691054216 0691008019 9780691008011
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34601966 bytes)
Pages
266\311
Topic
History
Time added
2017-03-20 17:26:34
Humanists -- Netherlands -- Biography. Scholars --

Description

Huizinga's great success and reputation came suddenly when he was over forty. Until that time his powers were ripening, not so much slowly as secretly. His friends knew that he was unique, but neither he nor they foresaw what direction his studies would take. He was born in 1872 in Groningen, the most northerly of the chief towns of the Netherlands, and there he went to school and to the University. He studied Dutch history and literature and also Oriental languages and mythology and sociology; he was a good linguist and he steadily accumulated great learning, but he was neither an infant prodigy nor a universal scholar. Science and current affairs scarcely interested him, and until his maturity imagination seemed to satisfy him more than research.

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