BURKARD WALDIS
\bˈɜːkəd wˈɒldɪz], \bˈɜːkəd wˈɒldɪz], \b_ˈɜː_k_ə_d w_ˈɒ_l_d_ɪ_z]\
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A German rhyming fabulist; born about 1490; died about 1557. He was a Franciscan friar, but on returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, embraced the doctrines of Luther. He wrote a charming drama in Low German, "The Parable of the Prodigal Son"; translated the Psalter into German verse; and wrote "AEsopus", a collection of about 400 rhymed fables and drolleries.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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