Johann Fischart - Works

Works

Fischart wrote under pseudonyms; such as Mentzer, Menzer, Reznem, Huidrich Elloposkleros, Jesuwalt Pickhart, Winhold Alkofribas Wustblutus, Ulrich Mansehr von Treubach, and Im Fischen Gilts Mischen. There is doubt whether some of the works attributed to him are really his. More than 50 satirical works, in both prose and verse, remain considered his authentic work.

Among works believed to be his are:

• Nachtrab oder Nebelkräh, a satire against Jakob Rabe, a Catholic convert (1570)
• Von St. Dominici des Predigermonchs und St Francisci Barfussers artlichem Leben, a poem with the expressive motto Sie haben Nasen und riechens nit ("Ye have noses and smell it not"), written to defend the Protestants against certain accusations, one of which was that Martin Luther held communion with the devil (1571)
• Eulenspiegel Reimensweis (written 1571, published 1572)
• Aller Praktik Grossmutter, after Rabelais' Prognostication Pantagrueline (1572, Johann Scheible ed. 1847)
• Floh Haz, Weiber Traz, in which he describes a battle between fleas and women (1573, Scheible ed. 1848)
• Affentheuerliche und ungeheuerliche Geschichtschrift vom Leben, Rhaten und Thaten der . . . Helden und Herren Grandgusier Gargantoa und Pantagruel, also after Rabelais (1575, and again under the modified title, Naupengeheurliche Geschichtklitterung, 1577)
• Neue kunstliche Figuren biblischer Historian (1576)
• Anmahnung zur christlichen Kinderzucht (1576)
• Das gluckhafft Schiff von Zürich (The Lucky Ship of Zürich), a poem commemorating the adventure of a company of Zürich arquebusiers, who sailed from their native town to Strasbourg in one day, and brought, as a proof of this feat, a kettleful of Hirsebrei (millet), which had been cooked in Zürich, still warm into Strasbourg, and intended to illustrate the proverb "perseverance overcomes all difficulties" (1576, republished 1828, with an introduction by the poet Ludwig Uhland)
• Podagrammisch Trostbuchlein (1577, Scheible ed. 1848)
• Philosophisch Ehzuchtbuchlein (1578, Scheible ed. 1848)
• Bienenkorb des heiligen römischen Immenschwarms, &c., a modification of the Dutch De roomsche Byen-Korf, by Philipp Marnix of St. Aldegonde (1579, reprinted 1847)
• Der heilig Brotkorb, after Calvin's Traité des reliques (1580)
• Das vierhörnige Jesuiterhütlein, a rhymed satire against the Jesuits (1580)

He also wrote a number of smaller poems. To Fischart also have been attributed some Psalmen und geistliche Lieder which appeared in a Strasbourg hymn-book of 1576.