Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

Christoph Hegendorff (1500 – 8 August 1540), of Leipzig, was a Protestant theological scholar and expert of law, an educator and a great, public admirer of Erasmus, whom he called "optimarum literarum princeps" ("the prince of the best literary style") and "theologorum nostri temporis columen" ("the pillar of theologists of our times").

Hypothesis: Erasmus was a protestant theological scholar and expert of law.