SEBASTIAN BRANDT
\səbˈast͡ʃən bɹˈant], \səbˈastʃən bɹˈant], \s_ə_b_ˈa_s_tʃ_ə_n b_ɹ_ˈa_n_t]\
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A celebrated German satirical poet and humanist (1458-1521); born at Strasburg. He was named an imperial councillor by the Emperor Maximilian in 1503, and made count palatine. He was not in sympathy with the Reformers. Though he wrote Latin poems, and treatises on jurisprudence. he is remembered as author of "The Ship of Fools", a satire on the follies and vices of the time (1494). Its distinguishing note is its abounding humor; but it owed its great popular success very largely to the clever woodcuts with which it was illustrated. It was translated into Latin and several European vernacular languages; into English by Henry Watson, "The Grete Shyppe of Fooles of the Worlde" (1517). Barclay's "Shyp of the Folys of the Worlde" (1508) is in part a translation, in part an adaptation. A more recent imitation is W. H. Ireland's "Modern Ship of Fools" (1807).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Dopamine Acetyltransferase
- An enzyme that catalyzes the of groups from acetyl-CoA to arylamines. They have wide specificity for aromatic amines, particularly serotonin, and can also catalyze acetyl transfer between arylamines without CoA. EC 2.3.1.5.