Saint Grobian is a fictional patron saint of vulgar and coarse people. His name is derived from the Middle High German grob or grop, meaning coarse or vulgar. The Old High German cognate is gerob, ger
Friedrich Dedekind was a German humanist, theologian, and bookseller.
Grobian
…Grobian is found later in several works of the period. Friedrich Dedekind (1524–1598) published Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres in 1554 at Cologne. Here Grobian is a counselor who teaches men…