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    Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457/1458 – 10 May 1521) was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff (The Ship...
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    published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by the humanist and theologian Sebastian Brant. It is the most famous treatment of the ship of fools trope and circulated...
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    Mugler Schlumberger brothers André Koechlin Léopold Louis-Dreyfus Sebastian Brant, who was born in Strasbourg in 1457 or 1458 August Stöber Gottfried...
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  • Antigone and Aristophanes' Wasps before Plato. During the Renaissance Sebastian Brant amplified and reworked Plato's text in a satirical book The Ship of...
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    especially in German-speaking lands, especially after the publication of Sebastian Brant's satirical book Ship of Fools (1494), which served as the inspiration...
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  • obscure word for any crude, sloppy, or buffoonish person. The satirist Sebastian Brant (1457–1521) conceived Saint Grobian as the patron saint of coarse manners...
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  • Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450–ca. 1512), surgeon, alchemist and botanist Sebastian Brant (1457–1521), satirical poet and humanist Ottmar Luscinius (1478–1537)...
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  • Scottish politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1433) 1521 – Sebastian Brant, German author (b. 1457) 1566 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and...
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  • Das Narrenschiff ("The Fool-Ship"), a 15th-century German poem by Sebastian Brant. For many years, the initial publisher Harcourt Brace would announce...
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    people born in Strasbourg include: Eric of Friuli, Johannes Tauler, Sebastian Brant, Jean Baptiste Kléber, Louis Ramond de Carbonnières, François Christophe...
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