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Heinrich Steinhöwel

Heinrich Steinhöwel

Heinrich Steinhöwel (also Steinhäuel or Steinheil; 1412 – 1482) was a Swabian author, humanist, and translator who was much inspired by the Italian Renaissance. His translations of medical treatises and fiction were an important contribution to early Renaissance Humanism in Germany.[1]

Heinrich Steinhöwel
Born1412
Weil der Stadt
Died1482
Ulm
OccupationTranslator
NationalityGerman
Period15th century

Biography

Steinhöwel studied at the University of Vienna in 1429, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree on July 13, 1432, and eventually his Master's Degree in 1436. He moved to Padua in 1438 and studied canon law, but later devoted himself to medicine. He graduated in 1440.[2] In 1442 he was an academic rector in Padua, and in 1444 he taught at the University of Heidelberg as rector magnificus.

In 1449 Steinhöwel was a physician in Esslingen and a year later in Ulm. Sometime after 1460 he became the personal physician of Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg.[3]

Steinhöwel's fame comes from translating a legendary biography description of the life of Aesop and Aesop's Fables which he put into a Latin-German encyclopedic version called "Ulmer Aesop" first published in Ulm in 1476.[4] In 1477-78 he published in Augsburg from Günther Zainer a large edition of Aesop's Fables with many woodcuts.[5] In 1480 he published a German translation of Aesop's Fables based on fables of Avianus, Babrius, Romulus, and Alfred[6] which inspired other translations of later centuries in various languages worldwide.[7]

Steinhöwel also translated many works of Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio. In 1473 he published a translated version of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris printed by Johann Zainer in Ulm.[8] He also translated stories based on material of the works of Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini and Petrus Alphonsi.[6] His material was popular not only in Germany but in England, France, and the Netherlands. Steinhöwel was the center of a circle of German humanists.[9]

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Citation Link//www.jstor.org/stable/2855002McConnell, Winder (1 January 1979). "Review of Heinrich Steinhöwels "Griseldis": Studien zur Text- ünd Überlieferungsgeschichte einer frühhumanistischen Prosanovelle". Speculum. 54 (2): 384–386. doi:10.2307/2855002. JSTOR 2855002.
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