biography
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Johannes von Saaz
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also known as Johannes von Tepl
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pronunciation:
[johhanes fon sahts
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1350–c.1414)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Sitbor, Bohemia. A notary, school director, and town clerk, his great linguistic model was Johannes von Neumarkt, whose Prager Kanzleisprache (created for the imperial Chancellery) was one of the bases for New High German. Von Saaz's disputatory Der Ackermann aus Böhmen or Streitgespräch zwischen dem Ackermann und dem Tod (c.1400) combined mediaeval (cf. Langland's Piers Plowman) with Renaissance themes, as the ploughman takes issue with Death for robbing him of his wife and pleads the value of life. It proved highly influential on German literature and was translated into Czech. |
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