Michael Beheim
Illustration — A song by Beheim from Heidelberg University Library, Cod. 24v Michael Beheim (also Michel Behaim, Beham or Behm, 1416 – c.1472) was a wandering singer from the modern-day German state Baden-Württemberg. He is an author of a number of songs and two versed chronicles, Buch von den Wienern and Das Leben Friedrichs I von der Pfalz.
Michael Beheim
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- Holy Roman Empire
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- singer-songwriter · singer · weaver · meistersinger · composer
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- Meistersinger
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- German
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Born at Obersulm in 1420, died in 1474.
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- 1."Michael Beheim." The Oxford Companion to German Literature. Oxford University Press, 1976, 1986, 1997, 2005.
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