Erasmus biographers

[Steven Avery]

John Jortin (1698-1770)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jortin

The Life of Erasmus
(1758, 1808 edition) - Vol 1
http://books.google.com/books?id=zJRCAAAAYAAJ
(1758, 1808 edition) - Vol 2
https://archive.org/details/lifeerasmus01clergoog/page/n3
1760 - Vol 2
http://books.google.com/books?id=NbQ_AAAAcAAJ

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Robert Blakely Drummond (1833-1920)
Pure Bible Forum
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.1189

Erasmus, His Life and Character as Shown in His Correspondence and Works (1873)
Volume 1
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKADAAAAYAAJ
https://archive.org/details/erasmushislifea03drumgoog/page/n10
Volume 2
https://books.google.com/books?id=P2MBAAAAQAAJ
https://archive.org/details/erasmushislifea02drumgoog/page/n6

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Edwin Johnson (1842-1901)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Johnson_(historian)

Memoir of Erasmus (1877)
Edwin Johnson
https://books.google.com/books?id=q4ZMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA11

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Perserved Smith (1880-1941)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_Smith

Erasmus A Study Of His Life Ideals And Place In History (1923, 1962 edition)
https://archive.org/details/erasmusastudyofh013578mbp/page/n6

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Roland Herbert Bainton (1894-1984)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Bainton

Erasmus of Christendom (1969)

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Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatus_Rhenanus
He also wrote ... a nine-volume work on his friend Erasmus (1540-1541)

Christian Humanism and the Reformation: Selected Writings of Erasmus, with His Life by Beatus Rhenanus and a Biographical Sketch by the Editor (1965, 1987 expanded 3rd ed)
John C. Olin (1915-2000)
https://books.google.com/books?id=iImJD_0zjHUC
The Introduction is a fine bio

Six Essays on Erasmus and a Translation of Erasmus' Letter to Carondelet, 1523 (1979)
http://books.google.com/books?id=LRL7031O-tIC

Erasmus bilbiography in Christian Humanism
https://books.google.com/books?id=iImJD_0zjHUC&pg=PA216

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possibly add Charles Butler

and moderns,
Henk de Jonge, Erika Rummel, Cecilia Asso, Lu Ann Homza, Grantley McDonald et al
Bentley, Bietenholz