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THOMAS MURNER (1475-1537 ?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 38 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:MURNER (1475-1537 ?)  , See also:German satirist, was See also:born on the 24th of See also:December 1475 at Oberehnheim near See also:Strassburg . 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 See also:preaching in See also:Freiburg-in-See also:Breisgau, See also:Paris, See also:Cracow and Strassburg . The See also: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 See also:office which, on See also:account of a scurrilous publication, he was forced to vacate the following See also:year . 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 . After journeys in See also:Italy and See also:England, he again settled in Strassburg, but, disturbed by the See also:Reformation, sought an See also:exile at See also:Lucerne in See also:Switzerland in 1526 . In 1533 he was appointed See also:priest of Oberehnheim, where he died in 1537, or, according to some accounts, in 1536 . See also:Murner was an energetic and passionate See also:character, who made enemies wherever he went . 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 . His most powerful See also:satire—and the most virulent German satire of the See also:period—is Von dem grossen lutherischen Nan-en, wie ihn Dr Murner beschworen See also:hat . Among others may be mentioned See also:Die Narrenbeschworung (1512); Die Schelmertzunft (1512); Die Gduchmatt, which treats of enamoured See also:fools (1519), and a See also:translation of See also:Virgil's Aeneid (1515) dedicated to the emperor Maximilian I . Murner also wrote the humorous Chartiludium logicae (1507) and the Ludus studentum freiburgensium (1511), besides a translation of Justinian's Institutiones (1519) . All Murner's more important See also:works have been republished in See also:critical See also:editions; a selection was published by G .

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 . Ott, Uber Murners Verhaltniss zu Geller (1896) .

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