A portrait of Sebastian Brant

Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 – May 10, 1521), German humanist and satirist, was born in Strasbourg. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (792x940, 152 KB) Burgkmair, Hans (der Ältere), Bildnis des Sebastian Brant, um 1508, Bild, Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, 953 Source: http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (792x940, 152 KB) Burgkmair, Hans (der Ältere), Bildnis des Sebastian Brant, um 1508, Bild, Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, 953 Source: http://www. ... Events University of Freiburg founded. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. ... Humanism is a system of thought that defines a socio-political doctrine (-ism) whose bounds exceed those of locally developed cultures, to include all of humanity and all issues common to human beings. ... List of satirists below - writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire - humourous social criticism. ... City flag City coat of arms Coordinates : , Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) Administration Département Bas-Rhin (67) Région Alsace Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Intercommunality Urban Community of Strasbourg City (commune) Characteristics Land Area 78. ...

He studied at Basel, took the degree of doctor of law in 1489, and for some time held a professorship of jurisprudence there. Returning to Strasbourg, he was made syndic of the town, remaining there for the rest of his life. The University of Basel (German: Universität Basel) is located at Basel, Switzerland. ... Jurisprudence is essentially the theory and philosophy of law. ... Syndic (Late Lat. ...

He first attracted attention in humanistic circles by his Latin poetry, and edited many ecclesiastical and legal works; but he is now only known by his famous satire, Das Narrenschiff (1494), the popularity and influence of which were not limited to Germany. Under the form of an allegory, a ship laden with fools and steered by fools goes to the fools' paradise of Narragonia. Brant here lashes with unsparing vigour the weaknesses and vices of his time. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong. ... Title page of a 1549 edition of Ship of Fools Ship of Fools is a satire published 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by Sebastian Brant, a conservative German theologian. ... An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, other, and αγορευειν, agoreuein, to speak in public) is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than and in addition to the literal. ...

Although, like most of the German humanists, essentially conservative in his religious views, Brant's eyes were open to the abuses in the church, and the Narrenschiff was a most effective preparation for the Protestant Reformation. Alexander Barclay's Ship of Fools (1509) is a free imitation of the German poem, and a Latin version by Jacobus Locher (1497) was hardly less popular than the German original. The Protestant Reformation was a movement in the 16th century to reform the Catholic Church in Western Europe. ... Alexander Barclay (c. ...

There is also a large quantity of other "fool literature." Nigel, called Wireker (fl. 1190), a monk of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, wrote a satirical Speculum stultorum, in which the ambitious and discontented monk figured as the ass Brunellus, who wanted a longer tail. Brunellus, who was educated in Paris, decides to found an order of fools, which shall combine the good points of all the existing monastic orders. Cock Lovell's Bate (printed by Wynkyn de Worde, c. 1510) is another imitation of the Narrenschiff. Cock Lovell is a fraudulent currier who gathers round him a rascally collection of tradesmen. They sail off in a riotous fashion up hill and down dale throughout England. Brant's other works, of which the chief was a version of Freidank's Bescheidenheit (1508), are of inferior interest and importance. St Peters St, Canterbury, from the West Gate, 1993 Canterbury (Latin: Duroverum) is a cathedral city in the county of Kent in southeast England. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur Tossed by the waves, she does not founder Coordinates : , Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) Administration Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Département Paris (75) Région ÃŽle-de-France Mayor Bertrand Delanoë (PS) City (commune) Characteristics Land Area 86. ... Wynkyn de Worde, born in Alsace, was the successor to William Caxton in his English printing business, taking over and running Caxtons press after his death. ... A currier is a specialist in the leather processing industry. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... Freidank (Vridanc), the name by which a Middle High German didactic poet of the early 13th century is known. ...

References

• Narrenschiff, edited by Friedrich Zarncke (1854)
• by Karl Goedeke (1872)
• by Felix Bobertag (Kürschner's Deutsche Nationattiteratur, vol. xvi, 1889).

Another German translation was published by K Simrock in 1872. Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke (July 7, 1825 - 1891), German philologist, was born at Zahrenstorf, near Brüel, in Mecklenburg, the son of a country pastor. ... Karl Goedeke (1814-87) was a German historian of literature, an author, and a professor. ... Karl Joseph Simrock (August 28, 1802 - July 18, 1876), was a German poet and writer. ...

On the influence of Brant in England

• C. H. Herford, The Literary Relations of England and Germany in the 16th Century (1886).
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.