erasmus

Noun erasmus has 1 sense

• erasmus(n = noun.person) desiderius erasmus, geert geerts, gerhard gerhards - Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536);
is a kind of humanist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer
Derived form adjective erasmian₁