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21-529: According to recent research, Steinhöwel was born in 1410 or 1411 in Weil der Stadt and went to study medicine at the University of Vienna from 1429 to 1436. He continued his education at the University of Padua from 1438, where he began by studying canon law , transferring later to receive his doctorate in medicine in 1443. From 1444 he taught medicine at the University of Heidelberg , going on to practice as

42-519: A German prose translation. The 550-page work contains 191 woodcuts and numerous decorative initials . The collection was also accompanied by a biography of Aesop and stories by Petrus Alphonsus and Poggio Bracciolini . Very soon after, translations or adaptations followed in Italian (1479), French (1480), English (the Caxton edition of 1484), Czech (about 1488) and Spanish (1489). Steinhöwel exerted

63-601: A German translation of Giovanni Boccaccio 's De claris mulieribus ( ' Famous Women ' ) was published, both of them with numerous high-quality woodcuts, as well as Steinhöwel's Tütsche Cronica ( ' German Chronicle ' ). Steinhöwel lived during the transition period from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance , when there was growing interest in classical Roman and Greek culture. After settling in Ulm, he

84-552: A doctor in his hometown of Weil in 1446, then in 1449 in Esslingen am Neckar . In 1450 Steinhöwel was appointed city physician of Ulm , initially for six years and then with an extended contract, and was also granted a pharmacy connection there. Later he authored a small work on the treatment of plague , Das Büchlein der Ordnung der Pestilenz (1473), the first on its subject in German, which went through four reprints before

105-437: A great influence on the development of a sophisticated German written language through his relatively free translations from Latin into German. Statements about his principles of translation, published in the introductions to his works, are among the early Renaissance theoretical considerations of the problem of translation and thus implicitly of cultural transfer. He died in Ulm in 1479. Weil der Stadt Weil der Stadt

126-414: A nominative case are nouns, adjectives, pronouns and (less frequently) numerals and participles. The nominative case often indicates the subject of a verb but sometimes does not indicate any particular relationship with the other parts of a sentence. In some languages, the nominative case is unmarked, and it may then be said to be marked by a null morpheme . Moreover, in most languages with a nominative case,

147-742: Is a stronghold of traditional carnival , which is celebrated with a parade in the city centre. In contrast to the carnival in the Rhineland, the carnival in Weil der Stadt, called Fasnet , is based on Alemannic traditions, shared by various towns in southwestern Germany and Switzerland. Weil der Stadt escaped destruction in World War II when a French artillery barrage was called off in honour of it being Kepler's birthplace. Borst, Otto and Joachim Feist. Weil der Stadt. Stuttgart: Theiss Verlag, Second Edition 1989. Nominative case In grammar ,

168-724: Is a town of about 19,000 inhabitants in the Stuttgart Region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg . It is about 30 km (19 mi) west of Stuttgart city centre, in the valley of the River Würm , and is often called the "Gate to the Black Forest ". The name Weil derives from the Latin word villa , an estate or manor. The suffix die Stadt (the town) was added to distinguish Weil from various nearby villages of

189-544: Is best known as the birthplace of the astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), and it bears the unofficial title of Keplerstadt , or Kepler town. Another famous son is the Protestant reformer Johannes Brenz (1499–1570). Due to its surroundings and attractive cityscape, dominated by the church steeple of St. Peter and Paul, Weil der Stadt is a popular destination for excursions in the Stuttgart region. Weil der Stadt

210-451: Is in the nominative, and the nominative is often the form listed in dictionaries. The English word nominative comes from Latin cāsus nominātīvus "case for naming", which was translated from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικὴ πτῶσις, onomastikḗ ptôsis "inflection for naming", from onomázō "call by name", from ónoma "name". Dionysius Thrax in his The Art of Grammar refers to it as orthḗ or eutheîa "straight", in contrast to

231-426: Is used for the subject of a transitive verb or a voluntary subject of an intransitive verb but not for an involuntary subject of an intransitive verb. Since such languages are a relatively new field of study, there is no standard name for this case. English is now often described as having a subjective case , instead of a nominative, to draw attention to the differences between the "standard" generic nominative and

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252-421: The accusative (comparable to the oblique or disjunctive in some other languages): I (accusative me ), we (accusative us ), he (accusative him ), she (accusative her ), they (accusative them ) and who (accusative whom ). A usage that is archaic in most current English dialects is the singular second-person pronoun thou (accusative thee ). A special case is the word you : originally, ye

273-405: The nominative case ( abbreviated NOM ), subjective case , straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb , or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective , as opposed to its object , or other verb arguments . Generally, the noun "that is doing something"

294-452: The oblique or "bent" cases. The reference form (more technically, the least marked ) of certain parts of speech is normally in the nominative case, but that is often not a complete specification of the reference form, as the number and the gender may need to be specified. Thus, the reference or least marked form of an adjective might be the nominative masculine singular. The parts of speech that are often declined and therefore may have

315-456: The end of the century. He was also consulted medically by various princes, including Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg and Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy. Steinhöwel brought Johann Zainer  [ de ] , the brother of his Augsburg printer to Ulm, where he set up what was probably the first printing press in 1472 with Steinhöwel's financial support. In 1473, a Latin and soon afterwards

336-558: The nominative form is the lemma ; that is, it is the reference form used to cite a word, to list it as a dictionary entry etc. Nominative cases are found in Albanian , Arabic , Estonian , Sanskrit , Slovak , Ukrainian , Hungarian , Lithuanian , Georgian , German , Latin , Greek , Icelandic , Old English , Old French , Polish , Serbian , Czech , Romanian , Russian and Pashto , among other languages. English still retains some nominative pronouns , which are contrasted with

357-438: The same name, such as Weil im Dorf and Weil im Schönbuch . The modern name is unusual in that it contains the dative article der rather than the nominative article die . This quirk arose because place names typically come after prepositions that govern the dative case in German, such as in or aus . The Roman origins of the town are immortalized in its coat of arms, which features the motto SPQR . The village of Wile

378-463: The way that it is used in English. The term objective case is then used for the oblique case , which covers the roles of accusative, dative and objects of a preposition. The genitive case is then usually called the possessive form, rather than a noun case per se . English is then said to have two cases: the subjective and the objective. The nominative case marks the subject of a verb. When

399-464: Was at the centre of a circle of humanistically minded men in Swabia and also worked as a translator from Latin and editor of ancient texts. Among such works was his metrical adaptation of the ancient novel Apollonius of Tyre , as well as works by Petrarch . Around 1476, Steinhöwel published his famous and influential bilingual collection of Aesop's Fables , with the Latin text in verse accompanied by

420-561: Was first mentioned in 1075, and described as the property of the famous abbey of Hirsau . Weil der Stadt became a Free Imperial City in the 13th century, but had existed for centuries before as an important trading place. The city was completely destroyed during the Thirty Years' War in 1648 but was subsequently rebuilt, and is still dominated by buildings from this period. The city's fortifications have survived largely intact, with city walls, gates, and several towers. Weil der Stadt

441-404: Was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time, you has come to be used for the nominative as well. The term "nominative case" is most properly used in the discussion of nominative–accusative languages , such as Latin, Greek and most modern Western European languages. In active–stative languages , there is a case, sometimes called nominative, that is the most marked case and

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