Ulrich Boner

Swiss writer
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Also known as: Ulrich Bonerus
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Latin:
Ulrich Bonerius
Flourished:
1324–49
Flourished:
1324 - 1349

Ulrich Boner (flourished 1324–49) was a Swiss writer and Dominican monk, whose collection of fables in verse was the first book to be printed in the German language (Bamberg, 1461). Boner, known to have been of a Bernese family, is mentioned in records between 1324 and 1349. He compiled and translated his collection of fables for Johann von Ringgenberg, his Bernese patron. Known as bîschaft or bîspel (“examples”), each of the tales emphasizes a moral. Written in Middle High German, the collection was probably completed in about 1350 and is titled Der Edelstein (“The Precious Stone”), because precious stones were ...(100 of 162 words)