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One of Brant's closes friends in Basel was his
former fellow student, J. Bergmann von Olpe of Westphalia
Interested in the new trade of printing Bergmann
took it up in order to disseminate the ideas of his
circle of friends. He learned the trade in the shop of
Michael Furter. Brant's Nauenshiff was perhaps
the 1st product of his shop.
- Brant, German humanist + satirist, who was
professor of Jurisprudence at Basel, is best
known for his extremely popular Nauenschiff,
1st published by Bergmann in German in 1494
In the form of an allegory - a ship of fools
steered by fools to a fool's paradise of
Nanagonia - Brant spares no vitriol in
attacking the vices + weakness of the
times. He lases out against abuses of
the church + in many ways paves the
way for the coming Protestant Revolution.
- J. Bergamnn de Olpe - at one time archdeacon
in the cathedral of Granfelden (Grandval)