TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erasmus,
AB  - This thirtieth volume in Erasmus' Opera omnia (ASD) is the fourth volume within 'ordo' IX, that is the 'ordo' of the Apologies. The division into 'ordines' each  'ordo' being devoted to a specific literary or thematic category - was laid  down by Erasmus himself for the posthumous publication of his works (see  General introduction, ASD I, pp. x, xvii-xviii, and C. Reedijk, Tandem bona causa  triumphat. Zur Geschichte des Gesamtwerkes des Erasmus von Rotterdam. Vortrage  der Aeneas-Silvius-Stiftung an der Universita.t Basel, XVI, Basel/Stuttgart, 1980,  p. 12 sqq., 21-22).  The present volume (tom. IX, 4) contains Apologia qua respondet duabus inuectiuis  Eduardi Lei; Responsio ad annotationes Eduardi Lei; Manifesta Mendacia (ed.  Erika Rummel, Toronto), and Responsio ad disputationem cuiusdam Phimostomi  de diuortio (ed. Edwin Rabbie, The Hague).  The Editorial Board and the editors of the present volume are grateful to all  libraries that kindly put books, photostats, microfilms, and bibliographical  material at their disposal.  On 6 May, 2002, Professor Sem Dresden, President of the Conseil international  pour l'edition des reuvres completes d'Erasme from 1971-1998, died at Leiden at  the age of 87. This Presidency was but one of the many official duties he carried  out with such distinction. He served as rector magnificus of Leiden University, as  President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and as chairman  of many other societies and committees. His style of presiding was casual  and ironical, but always very effective.  Although much sought-after as chairman of various bodies in the scholarly  world, his real love was for literature and art. He started his academic career at  Leiden University as professor of French literature (1947-1975), after which he  switched to general literature (1975-1981). His publications mirror his versatile  mind: he wrote about Erasmus, Rabelais, Grotius, Proust, Valery and many  others; he discussed, among other things, kitsch, the detective novel and the  VIII PREFACE  pleasure of reading; he devoted books to the theory of biography, humanism,  creativity, symbolism, and Holocaust literature. One of Dresden's favourite  authors was Montaigne whom he characterised as the 'spelende wijsgeer' (the  playing philosopher). In April 2002 he was awarded the EC. Hooft prize, the  Dutch national prize for literature, for his books and essays.  Professor Dresden joined the Conseil international in 1965 and has also been a  member of the Editorial Board. In 1977 he edited Erasmus' De contemptu mundi  (ASD V, I, pp. 1-86) and in 1985 the Commentaries on Psalms 2 and 3 (ASD V, 2,  pp. 81-179).  We will cherish the memory or our former President for his many contributions  to the Erasmus edition. His devotion to ASD and its collaborators  was, as we remember, often hidden behind what he himself used to call his  lightheartedness.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 357490
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 808384792
KW  - history
KW  - european history
KW  - Erasmus
KW  - Leus ramuli
KW  - Matrimonium
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e673da7b-7faa-4b19-99b9-4cb1f41e8fdd/357490.pdf
LA  - English
LA  - Latin
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34724
PB  - Huygens instituut/Brill
PY  - 2003
TI  - Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami : Ordinis noni Tomus Quartus
ER  - 
