MURNER, THOMAS (1475-1537 ?)

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MURNER, THOMAS (1475-1537 ?) , German satirist, was born on the 24th of December 1475 at Oberehnheim near Strassburg. In 1490 he entered the order of Franciscan monks, and in 1495 began a wandering life, studying and then teaching and preaching in Freiburg-in-Breisgau, Paris, Cracow and Strassburg. The emperor

Maximilian

MAXIMILIAN
MAXIMILIAN (1832—1867)

I. crowned him in 15o5 poeta laureatus; in 15o6, he was created

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

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 year.

Late

LATE

in life, in 1518, he began the study of jurisprudence at the university of Basel, and in 1519 took the degree of

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

juris. After journeys in Italy and England, he again settled in Strassburg, but, disturbed by the Reformation, sought an

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

at Lucerne in Switzerland in 1526. In 1533 he was appointed priest of Oberehnheim, where he died in 1537, or, according to some accounts, in 1536.

Murner

MURNER, THOMAS (1475-1537 ?)

was an energetic and passionate 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 Luther. His most powerful satireand the most virulent German

satire

SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

of the periodis Von dem grossen lutherischen Nan-en, wie ihn Dr

Murner

MURNER, THOMAS (1475-1537 ?)

beschworen hat. Among others may be mentioned Die Narrenbeschworung (1512); Die Schelmertzunft (1512); Die Gduchmatt, which treats of enamoured

fools

FOOLS, FEAST OF (Lat. festum stultorum, fatuorum, follorum, Fr. fete des fous)

(1519), and a

translation

TRANSLATION

of Virgil's Aeneid (1515) dedicated to the emperor

Maximilian

MAXIMILIAN
MAXIMILIAN (1832—1867)

I. Murner also wrote the humorous Chartiludium logicae (1507) and the Ludus studentum freiburgensium (1511), besides a

translation

TRANSLATION

of Justinian's Institutiones (1519).
All Murner's more important works have been republished in

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

editions; a selection was published by G. Balke in Kurschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur (1189o). Cf. W. Kawerau, Murner and die Kirche 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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