Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg was an Alsatian priest, considered one of the greatest of the popular preachers of the 15th century. He was closely connected with the Renaissance humanists of Strasbourg
Johann Geiler
Navicula sive Speculum fatuorum (1510)
Rue Geiler in Strasbourg
Jakob Wimpfeling
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Jakob Wimpfeling was an Alsatian Renaissance humanist and theologian.
Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg
…of the popular preachers of the 15th century. He was closely connected with the Renaissance humanists of Strasbourg, whose leader was the well-known Jakob Wimpfeling (1450–1528), called "the educator of Germany". Like Wimpfeling, Geiler was a secular priest; both fought the ecclesiastical abuses of the age, but not…
Portrait of Wimpfeling
Jakob Wimpfeling and his students debating with Thomas Murner, Defensio Germaniae Jacobi Wympfelingii, 1502