Schaidenreisser, Simon Minervius (c.1500-c.1573), a schoolmaster and town clerk in Munich, translated the Odyssey into homely German prose in 1537. It is the earliest German version of the work.
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Schaidenreisser, Simon Minervius (c.1500-c.1573), a schoolmaster and town clerk in Munich, translated the Odyssey into homely German prose in 1537. It is the earliest German version of the work.
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