Geïler von Kaiserberg, Johann, a famous German pulpit orator, born at Schaffhausen; Strasburg was the principal scene of his labours; his writings, though numerous, are rare, among them the “Narrenschiff, or Ship of Fools” (1453‒1510).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Geikie, James * Gelasius I., St.