Alardus of Amsterdam
Alardus or Alaard of Amsterdam ({{langx|la|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.{{cite book|author1=Peter G. Bietenholz|author2=Thomas Brain Deutscher|title=Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, Volumes 1-3, A-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hruQ386SfFcC&pg=PA19|year=2003|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8577-1|pages=19–20}}{{cite book|author=Dirk van Miert|title=The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575): Northern Humanism at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8dSM56KQr4gC&pg=PA5|date=9 June 2011|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-20914-5|page=5}}{{cite book|title=The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wck5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA616|year=1842|publisher=Longman, Brown|page=616}}
Alardus then led an itinerant life, tracking down Agricola's works left in manuscript.{{cite book|author=Desiderius Erasmus|title=The Poems of Desiderivs Erasmvs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8dEUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA31|publisher=Brill Archive|page=31|id=GGKEY:N9BRLDQ43QR}} He was at one point on good terms with Erasmus, but they later fell out.
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.{{cite book|author=Ann Moss|author-link=Ann Moss|title=Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oEc5cJaDiVgC&pg=PA177|year=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-924987-9|page=177}} His major work was the two-volume collected edition of Agricola of 1539.
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