Alardus or Alaard of Amsterdam ( Latin: Alardus Amstelredamus) (1491–1544) was a Dutch humanist scholar, known as an editor of Rodolphus Agricola and Erasmus.
Alardus was born in Amsterdam, a relation of Meynard Man. His teachers may have included Willem Hermans and Alexander Hegius. By 1511 he was teaching in Alkmaar, where he was a student of Murmellius who became the headmaster. [1] [2] [3]
Alardus then led an itinerant life, tracking down Agricola's works left in manuscript. [4] He was at one point on good terms with Erasmus, but they later fell out. [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. [1]