Editing Sebastian Brant (section)

==Early life and education==
Brant was born in either 1457 or 1458 in [[Strasbourg]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zeydel |first=Edwin H. |date=1966 |title=Wann wurde Sebastian Brant geboren? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20655345 |journal=Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur |volume=95 |issue=4 |pages=319–320 |jstor=20655345 |issn=0044-2518}}</ref> [[Holy Roman Empire]], to  innkeeper Diebold Brant and Barbara Brant (née Rickler).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Brant, Sebastian |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/articles/011593/2004-08-19/ |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=hls-dhs-dss.ch |language=de}}</ref> He entered the [[University of Basel]] in October 1475 and as an assistant to Jacobus Hugonius he did not pay the matriculation.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |title=Sebastian Brant, Forschungsbeiträge zu seinem Leben, zum Narrenschiff und zum übrigen Werk |date=2002 |publisher=[[Schwabe Verlag]] |isbn=3-7965-1734-X |editor-last=Wilhelmi |editor-first=Thomas |location=Basel |pages=11 |language=de}}</ref> For five years he lived in the [[Dormitory|dorm]] of magister Hieronymus Berlin,<ref name=":3" /> initially studying philosophy and then transferring to the school of law.<ref name=":1" /> He was taught [[Latin]] by Johann Matthias von Gengenbach, who also lectured philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy.<ref>Wilhelmi, Thomas (ed.).pp.11–12</ref> Initially studying at the Faculty of Philosophy he later studied law. It is assumed he began his law studies in 1476, as his [[Bachelor of Laws|bachelor]] is already mentioned in the winter of 1477-1478 and in 1484 Brant obtained a licentiate.<ref name=":4">Wilhelmi, Thomas (ed.).p.14</ref> In 1483 he began teaching at the university and completed his doctorate in law in 1489.<ref name=":1" /> He graduated in both [[Canon law|canon]] and [[Civil law (legal system)|civil law]].<ref name=":4" />