Albrecht von Eyb

Albrecht von Eyb (24 August 1420 – 24 July 1475) was one of the earliest German humanists.

From 1452 to 1459 he was again a student at Bologna, winning the degree of doctor of canon and civil law.

Eyb's best known and most important work is his Ehebüchlein (Book on Marriage), in which he discusses the question whether a man should take a lawful wife or not.

The German work treats of the joys and sorrows of married life and general maxims of a moral or philosophical character are added.

Appended to it are German translations of two of Plautus's comedies, the Menaechmi and the Bacchides as well as of Ugolini Pisani's Philogenia.

Albrecht von Eyb from a 1521 wood print.
Eyb family coat of arms
Albrecht von Eyb, Ob einem manne sey zunemen ein eelich weyb oder nit , Nuremberg 1472.