Alardus of Amsterdam

Alardus was born in Amsterdam, a relation of Meynard Man.

His teachers may have included Willem Hermans and Alexander Hegius.

[1][2][3] Alardus then led an itinerant life, tracking down Agricola's works left in manuscript.

[1] Alardus took part in the publication of Agricola's De inventione dialectica in 1515, and was editor of a revised edition in Cologne in 1538.

[5] His major work was the two-volume collected edition of Agricola of 1539.