JOHANN See also:MICHAEL See also:MOSCHEROSCH (1601–1669)
, See also:German satirist, was See also:born at Willstadt, near See also:Strassburg, on the 5th of See also:March 1601
.
He received a careful See also:early See also:education at the
Latin School at Strassburg, and in 162o began his See also:academic career as a student of See also:jurisprudence
.
After being for some years See also:tutor in the See also:family of the See also:Graf von See also:Leiningen-Dachsburg, he finally became privy councillor to the landgravine of See also:Hesse-See also:Cassel
.
He died at See also:Worms on the 4th of See also:April 1669
.
Under the name of " Der Traumende," See also:Moscherosch was a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, a society founded by See also:Prince See also:Ludwig of See also:Anhalt-See also:Cothen, in 1617, for the See also:purification of the German See also:language and the fostering of German literature
.
His most famous See also:work is the Wunderliche and wahrhafftige Gesichte Philanders von Sittewald (See also:anagram of Willstadt) (1642-1643), for which he took as his See also:model the Suehos (visions) of the famous Spaniard Francisco See also:Gomez de Quevedo y See also:Villegas (1580-1645)
.
Hardly inferior to the " visions " is the Insomnis cura parentum, Christliches Vermachtnis eines Eaters, which was published at Strassburg in 1643 and again in 1647
.
See also:Note-worthy is also See also:Die Patientia, discovered in 1897 in MS. in the municipal library at See also:Hamburg
.
Selections from Moscherosch's writings have been published by W
.
Dittmar (183o), F
.
Bobertag (in Kurschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, xxxii., 1884), and K
.
See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller (in Reclam's Universalbibliothek)
.
Reprints of the Insomnis cura parentum and Patientia have been published by L
.
Pariser (1893 and 1897), who is also the author of Beitrage zu einer Biographic von Moscherosch (1891)
.
See also M
.
Nickels, Moscherosch als Padagog (1883) ; J
.
Wirth Moscherosch's Gesichte (1888)
.
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