Johannes Pauli

Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born c. 1450
Died c. 1522
Activity c. 1500-c. 1522

Places

Born in Alsace
Active in Germany

Activities

Primary

Prose writer
Religious writer

Resources

Pauli's Works

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The Franciscan preacher and author, Johannes Pauli, was born in the Alsace (perhaps in Thann, northwest of Mulhouse) around 1450/1454 and died there around 1522. In 1479, Paul joined the Franciscan Order in Thann, and worked fairly widely as a preacher and official of his Order in Southwestern Germany in Villingen (1490–1494), Basel (1498), Bern (1503/1504), Strasbourg (1504–1510), Schlettstadt (1515), and Thann (since 1519). He gained major notoriety through his edition of the sermons by the popular preacher Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445–1510), the publication of his most influential collection of comic and religious stories,

Schimpf und Ernst

(first appeared in 1522), and through twenty-eight sermons recorded by a nun of the St. Clare Order in 1493/1494. Here, for instance, body…

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Citation: Classen, Albrecht. "Johannes Pauli". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 July 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15088, accessed 23 November 2024.]