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JOHANN MICHAEL MOSCHEROSCH (1601–1669) , See also: German satirist, was See also: born at Willstadt, near Strassburg, on the 5th of See also: March 1601
.
He received a careful 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 tutor in the See also: family of the Graf von See also: Leiningen-Dachsburg, he finally became privy councillor to the landgravine of Hesse-See also: Cassel
.
He died at See also: Worms on the 4th of See also: April 1669
.
Under the name of " Der Traumende," Moscherosch was a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, a society founded by See also: Prince Ludwig of See also: Anhalt-See also: Cothen, in 1617, for the See also: purification of the German language and the fostering of German literature
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His most famous See also: work is the Wunderliche and wahrhafftige Gesichte Philanders von Sittewald (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 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
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Note-worthy is 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 (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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