Heinrich Steinhöwel’s Esopus and the corpus of Aesopica in sixteenth-century Germany [thesis]

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CARNES Pack 1939-
HEINRICH STEIMDWEL’S ESOPUS AND THE CORPUS OF
AESOPICA IN SDCTEENTH-CENlURY GERMANY.
University o£ California, Los Angeles,
Ph.D., 1973
Language and Literature, general
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES
Heinrich SteinhUwel's Esopus and the Corpus of
Aesopica in Sixteenth-Century Germany
A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction
of the requirements of the degree Doctor of
Philosophy in Germanic Languages
by
Pack Carnes
Doctoral Committee:
Professor Eli Sobel, Chairman
Professor Wayland D. Hand
Professor Franz H. BHuml
Professor Margherita Cottino-Jones
Professor Joseph J. Arpad
1973
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For my mothers: Elizabeth Carnes
Mariko Nakai
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Table of Contents
Introduction............. ...1
Chapter One: The Classical and Mediaeval Traditions............. 6
Chapter Two: SteinhBwel's Esopus............................. 30
Chapter Three: Influence of SteinhHwel1 s.Esopus.............. ..83
Luther................................................ 84
Hans Sachs.......... .93
Compendium of Aesopica in Sixteenth-Century Germany ...... 99
Bibliography............................. 263
Appendix: Index to SteinhBwel's Fables......... ........282
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List of Abbreviations
Altdt. ■ Altdeutsch(e).
Beitrgge ■ Beitrgge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur.
BLVS = Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart.
B-P = Bolte-Polivka, Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmgrchen.
diss. s dissertation.
FFC a Folklore Fellows Communications.
Goedeke = Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung.
Jhrb. » Jahrbuch (-bllcher).
KHM » Kinder- und Hausmgrchen.
KG a Keller-Goetze, Sgmtliche Werke of Hans Sachs.
P[+number] a number assigned to fables in Perry's Aesopica.
RE a Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopgdie der classischen Altertums-
wissenschaft.
tetrastichaa 111gnatii Diaconi aliorumque tetrasticha iambica."
TAPhA a Transactions of the American Philological Association.
TR a Tischreden.
ZfdA a Zeitschrift ftlr deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur.
ZfdPh a Zeitschrift ftlr deutsche Philologie.
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VITA
November 25, 1939— Born, New York City, New York.
1962— B.A., Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
1962-1963— University of California, Los Angeles
1963-1964— University of Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br., Germany
1964-1965— Instructor in German, U.S. Army Educational Center, Mainz,
Germanv
1965-1969— Asst. Professor of English and Latin, Toyo Eiwa College,
Tokyo, Japan
' 1969-1972— Teaching Associate in German, University of California, Los
Angeles
1970— M.A. in German
. 1971— Ph.D. Qualifying Examination in Germanic Languages.
1972-1973— Asst. Professor in German, Lawrence University, Appleton,
Wisconsin
PUBLICATIONS
"Shakespeare's 'Small Latine' in Titus Andronicus." Toyo Eiwa Studies
in the Humanities [Tokyo] 6 (1968), 27-34.
Modern Conversational Japanese. 2 vols. Tokyo: Sony Language Labora­
tory, 1968-1969.
Teacher's Guide to "Modem Conversational Japanese." Tokyo: Sony Lan­
guage Laboratory, 1969.
'ICyushu, the Land of Amaterasu." This is Japan 16 (1969), 118-121.
Basic Conversational English Patterns. 6 vols. Tokyo: Sony Language
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Laboratory, 1969.
"The Town That Lives a Game." This is Japan 17 (1970), 270-273.
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ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION
Heinrich SteinhBwel's Esopus and the Corpus
of Aesopica in Sixteenth-Century Germany
by
Pack Carnes
Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Languages
University of California, Los Angeles, 1973
Professor Eli Sobel, Chairman
The German fable in the sixteenth century represents a fusion of
basically two traditions: the Latin fable, derived primarily from Phae-
drus and Avianus and known throughout the Middle Ages, and the Greek
Prose tradition, which had been virtually unknown during the Middle Ages.
• The history of the fable in sixteenth-century Germany is veiy much the
history of the marriage of these two traditions.
The Greek fable came to Germany first in the form of two Italian
translations from the Greek: Valla and Rinuccio. Rinuccio's one hundred
fables first appear in German in SteinhBwel's Esopus (1476/1477). Stein­
hBwel selected seventeen of the fables in Rinuccio's collection and edited
them, providing translations into German. No other version of Rinuccio's
fables appeared in Latin until the publication of Waldis' Esopus in 1548;
although a very few of Valla's fables did find their way into German
through Brant's redaction of SteinhBwel's Esopus and the translation of
this volume into German in 1535.
SteinhBwel's Esopus had a strong influence upon fable writers of the
early sixteenth century. Martin Luther and Hans Sachs were very strongly
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