{"id":70675,"date":"2017-05-15T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/?p=70675\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:46","slug":"op-zoek-naar-erasmus-de-proloog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/05\/15\/op-zoek-naar-erasmus-de-proloog-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In search of Erasmus: prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some 550 years after the birth of Desiderius Erasmus, EM <\/em>reporter and IBCoM student Job Zomerplaag travels through Europe in the great thinker\u2019s footsteps. A search to uncover this Rotterdam-born world citizen\u2019s legacy in our own times.<\/p>\n

Over the next few weeks, you can join Job on his peregrinations in the new series \u2018In search of Erasmus\u2019: a tour of modern-day Europe with Erasmus as a guide. Today, we\u2019ll be bringing Job\u2019s first story: the prologue.<\/p>\n

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Het Erasmusbeeld voor de Laurenskerk is het oudste bronzen standbeeld van Nederland en zwerft sinds 1622 door de Rotterdamse binnenstad.<\/span><\/p>

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A mediaeval adventure story<\/h2>

1466, or 1467, or 1469 \u2013 the historians aren\u2019t able to reach agreement \u2013 marks the start of a life with all the elements of a mediaeval adventure story. A story that begins in an unassuming little town on the banks of the Maas. Here, Desiderius Erasmus is born to an unmarried woman and a priest.<\/p>\n

What no one could have suspected at the time is that this Rotterdam bastard son would grow to become one of the foremost thinkers of his age. Erasmus is a pacifist in times of war; a dreamer in times of despair. He doesn\u2019t shy away from controversial statements and consistently seeks confrontations with his contemporaries. But more than anything, he is someone who holds up a mirror to society\u2019s face and encourages people to think for themselves. Although a restless man who never stops travelling throughout Europe, he always remains true to his home town of Rotterdam. Because regardless of where he is staying or living, he always calls himself Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

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