List of Erasmus correspondents from Rotterdam
Erasmus von Rotterdam's correspondents were numerous exponents of Renaissance humanism and important personalities of the epoch.
For Erasmus of Rotterdam had friendships, whether personal or postal nature, of great importance, because he never entered a marriage and relationship with his relatives, possibly because of his family background, was not tight. Around 3000 letters from and to Erasmus have survived. He is considered one of the most important Epistolographen of humanism .
In addition to the increasing number of printed products ( letterpress ), the communication medium of the letter was an important form of expression for the intellectual elite of the early modern period . The "res publica literaria" was the community of European scholars who shared an interest in classical literature and languages. The correspondence networked the humanists and scholars and, secondarily, made their ideas public.
Erasmus' correspondence consists of a series of letters, some of which were exchanged between him and his correspondents over a long period of time. In addition to letters with a formal character, it also includes letters as an expression of a pen friendship .
List of correspondents (incomplete)
Editions of his letters
- Percy Stafford Allen (Ed.): Opus epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami. 12 volumes (Oxford, 1906-1958)
- Collected Works of Erasmus (Toronto, 1976–), based on the edition by PSAllen
- Walther Köhler (Ed.): Erasmus of Rotterdam: De Conscribendis Epistolis. Instructions for writing letters. Vol. 8 of his selected writings, WTB, Darmstadt 1980
literature
- Sabine Vogel: Cultural Transfer in the Early Modern Era. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-1614-7109-4
- Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher: Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Volumes 1-3, AZ, Volumes 1-3, University of Toronto Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1
- Arnoud Visser: Reading Augustine through Erasmus' Eyes: Humanist Scholarship and Paratextual Guidance in the Wake of the Reformation. Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Twenty-Eight, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008, p. 75 [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ black chalk on paper
- ↑ Silver pen and chalk
- ↑ Peter Dürmüller: The humanistic letter. The main public medium of the humanists. December 3, 2009 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
