Alardus of Amsterdam explained

Alardus or Alaard of Amsterdam (Latin: Alardus Amstelredamus) (1491–1544) was a Dutch humanist scholar, known as an editor of Rodolphus Agricola and Erasmus.

Life

Alardus was born in Amsterdam, a relation of Meynard Man. His teachers may have included Willem Hermans and Alexander Hegius. By 1511 he was teaching in Alkmaar, where he was a student of Murmellius who became the headmaster.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Alardus then led an itinerant life, tracking down Agricola's works left in manuscript.^[4] He was at one point on good terms with Erasmus, but they later fell out.^[1]

Works

Alardus took part in the publication of Agricola's De inventione dialectica in 1515, and was editor of a revised edition in Cologne in 1538.^[5] His major work was the two-volume collected edition of Agricola of 1539.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Book: Peter G. Bietenholz. Thomas Brain Deutscher. Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, Volumes 1-3, A-Z. 2003. University of Toronto Press. 978-0-8020-8577-1. 19–20.
2. Book: Dirk van Miert. The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575): Northern Humanism at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age. 9 June 2011. BRILL. 978-90-04-20914-5. 5.
3. Book: The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 1842. Longman, Brown. 616.
4. Book: Desiderius Erasmus. The Poems of Desiderivs Erasmvs. Brill Archive. 31. GGKEY:N9BRLDQ43QR.
5. Book: Ann Moss. Ann Moss. Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn. 2003. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-924987-9. 177.