Debate

Chat with an Debate AI designed to question your opinions and engage in Erasmian debate.

Learn

See digital exhibitions to learn more about specific aspects of Erasmus and his life.

Search

Search the entire corpus of Erasmus using natural language search, or get more specific in letters or long-form works.

Works

Explore the longer-form works of Erasmus in their original Latin (links to other sources included).

Letters

Explore over 3,000 letters of Erasmus in their original Latin, with accompanying translations.

Data

Visualize the data on this site with maps, charts, relations, and more.

Erasmiana Digital
Welcome to this humble little website. I've tried to gather the corpus of Erasmus in a way that is fresh, innovative, and true to the sources, in a way that Erasmus might have liked. This website is still in beta. Many of the sources you see will have transcription errors, missing data, and other issues. I'm inviting feedback to see if the concept of this site strikes true or not. This website was created by Victor Temprano in his role as the Erasmus Collection Fellow in Oct-Nov 2025.
Website made by Victor Temprano.
How it's made
You may view the following presentation to learn more about how the site was created. In brief, texts were gathered from the Rotterdam Library archives, then processed through OCR and various LLM helpers. Afterwards, it was semantic embedded to make it searchable.
Github here.
Thank you
Thank you to the kind people at Rotterdam City Archives, the Library, Erasmus University, and Erasmus House Museum for their support and guidance. Thanks to:
  • John Tholen
  • Sanne Steen
  • Ronald van Raak
  • Han van Ruler
  • Hélène Haug
  • Laure Goemans
  • Wiep van Bunge