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• A German rhyming fabulist; born about 1490; died about 1557. He was a Franciscan friar, but on returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, embraced the doctrines of Luther. He wrote a charming drama in Low German, "The Parable of the Prodigal Son"; translated the Psalter into German verse; and wrote "AEsopus", a collection of about 400 rhymed fables and drolleries.

1910 - Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
By Charles Dudley Warner