Desiderius Erasmus Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Desiderius Erasmus? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Desiderius Erasmus from Western Philosophy and what is the personality traits.
ENFJ (1w9)
Desiderius Erasmus personality type is ENFJ, which is in large part why he was able to become such an influential figure in the church. (The ENFJ is the ‘people-person’, who is highly principled and idealistic, with strong moral convictions.)
Famous ENFJs include the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Helen Keller, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John F. Kennedy, John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, and many others.
As an ENFJ myself, I’m very interested to see what the test reveals about the character of my hero St. Augustine!
My colleague Dr. Zlatko Hadzi-Pavlovic wrote about St. Augustine’s ENFJ profile in his book The God-intoxicated Man:
“St. Augustine’s life story is a very interesting one, to say the least. Born in 386 A.D.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch philosopher and Christian humanist who is widely considered to have been the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance. Originally trained as a Catholic priest, Erasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style. Among humanists he enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists". Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote On Free Will, In Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.
