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| (1458–1521)
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| Poet and humanist, born in Strassburg, SWC Germany. He studied and lectured at Basel. He is best known for his allegory Das Narrenschiff (1494), a satire on the follies and vices of his times, the most famous German literary work of his century. It was translated into English as The Shyp of Folys by Alexander Barclay and Henry Watson in 1509. |
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