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Born March 16, 1478 • Ulm • (Birthday in 3 days)
Died November 8, 1527 (aged 49) • Dresden
Desiderius Erasmus
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
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Theodore Beza
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Christiern Pedersen
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Marsilio Ficino
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Opitz, Martin
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Rabanus Maurus
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Burnett Hillman Streeter
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Richard Francis Weymouth
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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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