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Tomb of Erasmus in Basel Cathedral

or “Desiderius Erasmus Roterdamus” in full. Humanist, philologist, and a true “Renaissance man”. Although I am a die-hard ecclesiastical guy, I have to give him credit for helping develop the Erasmian / ”classical” pronunciation of Latin as well!

u/huangtum — 4 months ago