This is Desiderius Erasmus who was a prominent linguist, philosopher and “reformer.” He was a prominent scholar during a period referred to as the Northern Renaissance. He was Dutch but also fluent in many European languages. He had a major influence on the Protestant Reformers although he remained a Roman Catholic. His translations of the New Testament in Greek and Latin provided the basis of a Bible that could be translated into the common language. Luther’s German translation had a profound influence in uniting the German (Full credit on this information to Dewey Jones, fellow philatalist from the Spellman site.)
This is a 1969 commemorative issue by the government of the Netherlands.
He is assigned to the good guys team. Later we will have a contest of sorts between the good dudes and the bad dudes as to who makes the more attractive stamps.
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