Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 10

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• 1521 - Death of humanist and satirist Sebastian Brant, author of the Ship of Fools
• 1566 - Death of botanist Leonhart Fuchs
• 1760 - Birth of poet Johann Peter Hebel
• 1878 - Birth of politician Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany 1923 and recipient of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize
• 1933 - Nazis and like-minded professors and students start the book burning on the Opernplatz in Berlin