Alexander Hegius von Heek
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Alexander Hegius von Heek was a German humanist, so called from his birthplace Heek.
Medallion with a conjectural portrait of Alexander Hegius, located in the facade of the Latin school in Deventer
Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, theologian, and philosopher. He was, through his writings and translations, o
Alexander Hegius von Heek
…either founded or succeeded to the headship of a school, which became famous for the number of its distinguished alumni. First and foremost of these was Erasmus; others were Hermann von dem Busche and Murmellius, the missionaries of humanism, Conrad Goclenius (Gockelen), Conrad Mutianus (Muth von Mudt) and Frans…
Erasmus, in a 1523 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
Statue of Erasmus in Rotterdam. Gilded bronze statue by Hendrick de Keyser (1622), replacing a stone (1557), and a wooden (1549).
Hieronymous Bosch, Temptation of St Anthony, triptych (c. 1501), painted in 's-Hertogenbosch, later owned by his friend Damião de Gois
Bust by Hildo Krop (1950) in Gouda, where Erasmus spent his youth