Heinrich Steinhowel

Heinrich Steinhowel, also Steinhäuel or Steinheil (* 1412 in Weil der Stadt, † 1482 or 1483 in Ulm ) was a German early humanist translator and writer.

Life

Steinhowel studied medicine in Vienna since 1429, where he became a master in 1436. Next he studied in Padua in 1438 and received his doctorate there. In 1442 he was Rector artistarum in Padua, in 1444, he taught at the University of Heidelberg. Since 1449 he was city physician in Esslingen, 1450 he was town physician in Ulm and later physician to the Count Eberhard of Württemberg. Steinhowel also worked as a translator and was the center of a circle humanistic minded men ( Niklas von Wyle, Anthony of Pforr ). He has translated the metric processing of the ancient Romans Apollonius of Tyre by Godfrey of Viterbo and works by Petrarch, and he excelled especially as a translator of the works of Boccaccio and the fables of Aesop, which it called merits in the creation of a German literary prose acquired. His writings were very popular and experienced partly numerous reprints.

Heinrich Steinhowel 1476 has published a collection of fables aesopscher by various Latin versions. The "Ulm Aesop " seasoned Steinhowel with a Life of Aesop, Tales of Petrus Alphonsus and Poggio. The stories Poggio - amorous adventures of married women - meant that the Esopus to a bestseller in its time was. The flip side of the coin, however, was the condemnation of popular fiction. Martin Luther, who promoted the popular because of their doctrinal effect fable, was also a critic of this issue.

In the transitional period from late Middle Ages to the Renaissance and the growing interest in classical Greek and Roman culture. The Ulm Aesop 1476 is therefore also a typical time of publication, which should inspire some more fabulous collections of later centuries. The 550 -page work is provided with 191 colored woodcuts and numerous initials. The woodblock prints were created in the heyday of the Ulm woodcut, they are characterized by high plasticity, safe handling of spatial and characteristic representation of animals and people, to the mood again decisive facial expressions, from.

Works

  • History of the cruise Duke Godfrey. ( Translation of R. Monachus, authorship doubtful), 1461.
  • Apollonius of Tyre. 1471.
  • Tütsche Cronica. 1473rd
  • Book the order of the pestilence. ( Regimes Pestilentiae ), 1473rd
  • Griselda. ( Translation of Boccaccio by Petrarch's Latin processing ), 1473rd
  • Wyben Of the synnrychen erluchten. (after Boccaccio's De claris mulieribus ), 1473rd
  • Mirror of human life. (after Rodriguez Sánchez de Arévalo ), 1475th
  • Esopus. 1476/77.
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