Johannes von Tepl

Japanese: ヨハネス[テープルの]（英語表記）Johannes von Tepl

1350?-1414
A Bohemian (Czech) author of the late Middle Ages. He was the archivist and head of the Latin school in the North Bohemian city of Saaz (now Žatec), and is therefore also known as Johannes of Saaz. He is best known for his short story The Bohemian Peasant (c. 1400), written in German prose, which is part of the lineage of polemical literature and depicts a rhetorical debate between a peasant (who tills the paper fields, i.e. a writer, and thus the author himself) whose beloved wife has died in childbirth, and Death.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1350？‐1414
中世後期のボヘミア(チェコ)の作家。北ボヘミアの都市ザーツSaaz(現，ジャテツ)の文書官，ラテン語学校校長を務めたので，ザーツのヨハネスとも呼ばれる。ドイツ語の散文で書かれた短編《ベーメン(ボヘミア)の農夫》(1400ころ)の作者として知られるが，これは論争文学の系譜に連なる作品で，愛妻を産褥（さんじよく）で失った農夫(ただし紙の畑を耕す農夫すなわち文筆の人，作者自身を暗示する)と死神との間にレトリックを駆使した論争が展開する。

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