Sebastian Brant
German humanist and satirist
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- Doctorate Law University of Basel
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sebastian Brant was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff . Early life and education Brant was born in either 1457 or 1458 in Strasbourg to innkeeper Diebold Brant and Barbara Brant . He entered the University of Basel in October 1475 and as an assistant to Jacobus Hugonius he did not pay the matriculation. For five years he lived in the dorm of magister Hieronymus Berlin. Initially studying philosophy and then transferring to the school of law. Latin he was taught by Johann Matthias von Gengenbach who also a lectured philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy. Initially studying at the Faculty of Philosophy he later studied law. It is assumed he began his law studies in 1476, as his bachelor is already mentioned in the winter of 1477-1478 and in 1484 Brant obtained a licentiate. In 1483 he began teaching at the university and completed his doctorate in law in 1489. He graduated in both canon and civil law.
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