Heinrich BebelHeinrich Bebel was a German humanist.BiographyHe was an alumnus of Kraków and Basel universities, and from 1497 professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Tübingen. His fame rests principally on his Facetiae, a curious collection of bits of homely and rather coarse-grained humor and anecdote, directed mainly against the clergy; on Proverbia Germanica ; and on his Triumph of Venus, a keen satire on the depravity of his time. He was a friend of Erasmus.