biography
pronunciation:
[moorner]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1475–1537)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Oberehnheim-Strasbourg, Alsace. A Franciscan since 1490, he became a priest in 1525. An ardent opponent of the Reformation, he left Alsace for Switzerland (1525) on the outbreak of the Peasants' Wars, but was forced to return home four years later because of his attacks on Protestantism. His satires are sharply witty and couched in robust terms. Von dem großen Lutherischen Narren, wie ihn Dr. Murner beschworen hat (1522) is among the major anti-Reformation polemics of its time. More general ills in the Church and society are pilloried in the verse satires Narrenbeschwörung (1512), Schelmenzunft (1512), and Geuchmatt (1519). |
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