Sebastian Brant
…1521) was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools). Brant was born in either 1457 or 1458 in Strasbourg, Holy Roman Empire, to innkeeper Diebold Brant and Barbara Brant (née Rickler). He entered the University of Basel in October 1475 and as an assistant…