About Heinrich Bebel
Lived 1472 – 1518 (aged 45–46). Heinrich Bebel was a German writer, university teacher and poet.
Heinrich Bebel (1472 in Ingstetten (now part of Schelklingen) – 1518 Tübingen) was a German humanist.
Biography He was an alumnus of Kraków and Basel universities, and from 1497 professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Tübingen. His fame rests principally on his Facetiae (1506), a curious collection of bits of homely and rather coarse-grained humor and anecdote, directed mainly against the clergy; on Proverbia Germanica (1508; new ed., Leyden, 1879); and on his Triumph of Venus, a keen satire on the depravity of his time. He was a friend of Erasmus.
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German writer (1472-1518)
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Heinrich Bebel was born in 1472 in Schelklingen.
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Heinrich Bebel died on 31 March 1518 in Tübingen.
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Heinrich Bebel was a writer, university teacher and poet.
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Heinrich Bebel was German.
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