Gerard Geldenhouwer
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Dutch historian
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Gerard Geldenhouwer's Degrees
- PhD History University of Amsterdam
- Masters History University of Amsterdam
- Bachelors History University of Amsterdam
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Why Is Gerard Geldenhouwer Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerardus Geldenhouwer was a Dutch historian and Protestant reformer. Geldenhouwer descended from a patrician family of Nijmegen, where he was born. His father, also named Gerard, was chamberservant at the court of Arnold of Egmond and Adolf of Egmond, dukes of Guelders. He followed an education at the Latin school in Deventer, before he joined the Augustinians. After this he studied at Leuven. Here he wrote his first publications, amongst which are a collection of Satires in the trend of Erasmus' Praise of Folly. In this period he also oversaw the printing of several works of Erasmus and Thomas More.
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