Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 10


 * 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