FISCHART (1546-1590), Johannes, the great German satirist of the 16th century, was born probably at Strasburg (according to some accounts at Mainz), in 1546, and was educated at Worms, in the house of Kaspar Scheid, whom he mentions in the preface to his Eulenspiegel as his “cousin and preceptor.” After taking the degree of Doctor der Rechte at Basel in 1570, he left Germany for a time, and is said to have travelled in Italy, the Netherlands, France, and England. Having returned to Strasburg, he lived there from 1576 to about 1580 with his brother-in-law the printer, Bernhard Jobin, who became the publisher of most of Fischart’s works. In 1581 Fischart became Advocat am Reichskammergericht at Spire, and in 1583 Hohenfelsischer Amtmann at Forbach, near Saarbrück. Here he died in the winter of 1589-90, at the age of forty-three. Fischart wrote under various feigned names, such as Mentzer, Menzer, Reznem, Huldrich Elloposkleros, Jesuwalt-Pickhart, Winhold Alkofribas Wüstblutus, and Huldrich Mansehr von Treubach; and it is partly owing to this fact that there is doubt whether some of the works attributed to him are really his. More than 50 satirical works, however, both in prose and verse, remain authentic, among which are— Der Nachtrabe, or Die Nebelkräh (1570), a satire against one Jacob Rabe, who had become a convert to the Catholic Church; Von St Dominici des Prediger-mönchs u. St Francisco Barfüssers artlichem Leben (1571), a poem with the expressive motto “Sie haben Nasen vnd riechens nit,” written to defend the Protestants against certain wicked accusations, one of which was that Luther held communion with the devil; Eulenspeigel Reimensweis (1572); Allerpraktik Grossmutter (1572), after Rabelais’s Prognostication Pantagrueline; Flöhatz ...