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Article: Brant, Sebastian (1457–1521)
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BRANT, SEBASTIAN (1457
–
1521)
BRANT, SEBASTIAN
(1457
–
1521), German author and jurist. Sebastian Brant, the celebrated author of
Das Narrenschiff
(1494; Ship of fools), was born sometime in 1457 to Strasbourg innkeeper Diebold Brant and his wife, Barbara, n
é
e Picker. The eldest of three sons, Brant proved a talented pupil and, following his father's death in January 1468, his mother labored to provide him with private tutors. Beginning in 1475, he attended the University of Basel, where he developed a conservative brand of humanism under his mentor, the theologian Johannes Heynlin von Stein (a Lapide). After receiving his baccalaureate in 1477, Brant focused on legal ...