(n) Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536), Syn. Geert Geerts, Desiderius Erasmus, Gerhard Gerhards
(n) Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594), Syn. Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer