Fischart
JOHANN (fish'ärt), a German satirist; born in Mainz, in 1545.
He took the doctor's degree in the University of Basel, in 1574, and afterward was an official of the Imperial Chamber of Justice at Spires. The period of his literary production lies between 1575 and 1581, while he assisted his brother-in-law Jobin, who had a printing office in Strassburg burg . Among his compositions in verse may be mentioned: "The Jester in Rhyme" (1571); "Description of the Four-Cornered Hat" (1580), against the Jesuits; the "Flöhhatz Weibertratz" (1573); "Podagramic Book of Consolation" (1577), "The Hive of the Holy Roman Swarm" (1579). In imitation of Rabelais's "Gargantua," but giving free play to his own native humor and wit, he wrote of "The Wondrous Deeds, Thoughts and Words of the Famous Heroes and Lords Grandgusier, Gargantua, and Pantagruel" (1575). He died in Forbach, in 1591.