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P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
1869–1933
A leading Oxford scholar of Erasmus, he spent decades tracing, editing, and explaining the great humanist’s letters. His work helped make Renaissance scholarship far more accessible to later readers.
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The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
About the author
Born in Twickenham on 7 July 1869, Percy Stafford Allen was educated at Clifton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He became one of Britain’s best-known classical scholars and was especially admired for his lifelong work on Desiderius Erasmus, the Dutch Renaissance humanist.
Allen devoted years to collecting and editing Erasmus’s correspondence, a huge scholarly task that became his signature achievement. Alongside that work, he built a career at Oxford and eventually served as President of Corpus Christi College from 1924 until his death in 1933.
Remembered as an exacting and dedicated scholar, Allen helped shape modern Erasmus studies through careful archival work and clear historical scholarship. He died in Oxford on 16 June 1933.