biography
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| lived:
| (1488–1523)
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| biography:
| Humanist, born at the castle of Steckelberg, EC Germany. He was sent to the Benedictine monastery of Fulda in 1499, but fled from there in 1505. After many travels he was crowned poet laureate by Emperor Maximilian I (1517), entered the service of Albert, Archbishop of Mainz, and shared in the famous satires Epistolae obscurorum virorum (Letters of Obscure Men). Eager to see Germany free from foreign and priestly domination, he took part in the campaign of the Swabian League against Ulrich of Württemberg (1519). He supported Luther and was dismissed from the archbishop's service. He was given shelter by Sickingen until Sickingen was killed (1523). Rejected by Erasmus, he finally found a resting place through Zwingli's help on the island of Ufnau in L Zürich. |
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