Named after the Dutch scholar and theologian Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) and also shoe-horned into a shorthand for EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students, the ...
Heard of a guy called Desiderius Erasmus? He was a 16th century scholar from the Netherlands (Rotterdam) who, among other things, defended the concept of free will and the ability of people to learn ...