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See also: German satirist, was See also: born on the 24th of See also: December 1475 at Oberehnheim near Strassburg
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In 1490 he entered the See also: order of Franciscan monks, and in 1495 began a wandering See also: life, studying and then teaching and preaching in See also: Freiburg-in-See also: Breisgau, See also: Paris, See also: Cracow and Strassburg
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The emperor See also: Maximilian I. crowned him in 15o5 poeta laureatus; in 15o6, he was created See also: doctor theologiae, and in 1513 Was appointed custodian of the Franciscan monastery in Strassburg; an office which, on account of a scurrilous publication, he was forced to vacate the following See also: year
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See also: Late in life, in 1518, he began the study of See also: jurisprudence at the university of See also: Basel, and in 1519 took the degree of doctor See also: juris
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After journeys in See also: Italy and See also: England, he again settled in Strassburg, but, disturbed by the See also: Reformation, sought an exile at Lucerne in See also: Switzerland in 1526
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In 1533 he was appointed See also: priest of Oberehnheim, where he died in 1537, or, according to some accounts, in 1536
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See also: Murner was an energetic and passionate character, who made enemies wherever he went
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There is not a trace of human kindness in his satires, which were directed against the corruption of the times, the Reformation, and especially against See also: Luther
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His most powerful satire—and the most virulent German satire of the period—is Von dem grossen lutherischen Nan-en, wie ihn Dr Murner beschworen See also: hat
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Among others may be mentioned Die Narrenbeschworung (1512); Die Schelmertzunft (1512); Die Gduchmatt, which treats of enamoured fools (1519), and a See also: translation of Virgil's Aeneid (1515) dedicated to the emperor Maximilian I
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Murner also wrote the humorous Chartiludium logicae (1507) and the Ludus studentum freiburgensium (1511), besides a translation of Justinian's Institutiones (1519)
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All Murner's more important See also: works have been republished in
critical See also: editions; a selection was published by G
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Balke in Kurschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur (1189o) . Cf . W . Kawerau, Murner and die Kirche See also: des Mittelalters (189o); and by the same writer, Murner and die deutsche Reformation (1891); also K
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Ott, Uber Murners Verhaltniss zu Geller (1896)
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