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Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) was a world-renowned Dutch historian and cultural scholar whose work predated the Annales School. His most famous works, constantly reprinted worldwide, include The Autumn of the Middle Ages and the treatise Homo ludens (Man at Play). Erasmus (1467-1536) was a great humanist, translator, and commentator on the Old and New Testaments. His books The Praise of Folly and Conversations easily made him one of the most famous writers in the Latin language. According to the classical philologist Yu. A. Shichalin, Erasmus proved to be "the glue that holds together the tradition that preserved for Europe the unity of its ancient origins with Christianity, a tradition we rightly call humanistic." In his biography Erasmus (1924), Huizinga explores the complex and contradictory personality of the great Rotterdamer. Desiderius Erasmus is portrayed not only as a witty writer and philosopher, a leading figure in the Age of Humanism, but also as a man with his own weaknesses and shortcomings, "endowed with too few prejudices and too refined taste, with a certain lack (oh, not in all areas!) of that very Stultitia (folly) which he extolled as an essential element of life." Erasmus anticipated the modern era not only in his convictions but also in his personality and character. He became a preacher of peace, moral education, and universal tolerance, which are still sorely lacking in human society.
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