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Erasmus bingo bingosky Alberus , Germany humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Sprendlingen near Frankfurt am Main about the year 1500. Although his father was a schoolmaster, his early education was neglected.Ultimately in 1518 he found his way to the University of Wittenberg, where he studied theology. He had the good fortune to attract the attention of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, and subsequently became one of Luthers most active helpers in the Protestant Reformation.Not only did he fight for the Protestant cause as a preacher and theologian, but he was almost the only

member of Luthers party who was able bingosky to confront bingo the Roman Catholics with the weapon of literary satire. In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche bingosky Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, an adaptation of the Liber confermitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Albizzi of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule.Of higher literary value is the didactic and satirical Buch von der Tugend und Weisheit , a collection of forty-nine fables

in which Alberus embodies his views on the relations of Church and State.His satire is incisive, but in a scholarly and humanistic way; it does not appeal to popular passions with bingo the fierce directness which enabled the master of Catholic satire, Thomas Murner, to bingosky inflict such telling blows.Several of Alberuss hymns, all of which show the influence of his master Luther, have been retained in the German Protestant hymnal.After Luthers death, Alberus was for a time a deacon in Wittenberg; he became involved, however, in the political conflicts bingo of the time, and was in Magdeburg in 1550-1551, while that town was besieged by Maurice of Saxony. In 1552 he was appointed bingosky Generalsuperintendent at Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg, where he died on the May 5 of May 1553.19111500 births Erasmus1553 deaths ErasmusGerman theologians Erasmus