Heinrich Bebel (1472 in Ingstetten (now part of

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) – 1518

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) was a German

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Biography

He was an alumnus of Krakow and

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

universities, and from 1497 professor of poetry and rhetoric at the

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. 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 Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bebel, Heinrich 1472 births 1518 deaths People from Alb-Donau-Kreis German male writers German Renaissance humanists Writers from Baden-Württemberg University of Tübingen faculty