Background
Alardus was born in Amsterdam, a relation of Meynard Manitoba
humanist scholar editor of Rodolphus Agricola
Alardus was born in Amsterdam, a relation of Meynard Manitoba
By 1511 he was teaching in Alkmaar, where he was a student of Murmellius who became the headmaster. Alardus then led an itinerant life, tracking down Agricola"s works left in manuscript. He was at one point on good terms with Erasmus, but they later fell out.