Thomas Murner

In 1490 he entered the Franciscan order, and in 1495 began travelling, studying and then teaching and preaching in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Paris, Cracow and Strasbourg itself.

[4] In October 1518 his book Utriusque iuris Tituli et Regule was published by Adam Petri in Basel which still included most of the text still in both languages, Latin and German.

[5] In April 1519, he published the Instituten in warer ursprung, where the foreword and text were held in the german language and the chapters printed in latin.

[8] Henry VIII felt that Murner was an important orthodox influence in Strasbourg and gave him £100 and a letter to the city magistrates.

His most powerful satire—the most virulent German satire of the period—is Von dem grossen Lutherischen Narren wie ihn Doctor Murner beschworen hat ("On the Great Lutheran Fool", 1522).