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GOTTLIEB WILHELM RABENER (1714–1771)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 773 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RABENER (1714–1771)  , See also:German satirist, was See also:born on the 17th of See also:September 1714 at Wachau near See also:Leipzig, and died at See also:Dresden on the 22nd of See also:March 1771 . In 1741 he made his debut as satirist in See also:Schwabe's Belustigungen See also:des Verstandes and Witzes, and was subsequently a contributor to the See also:Bremer Beitrage . See also:Rabener's satires are in See also:prose and mainly levelled at the follies of the See also:middle classes . The papers which he published in the Bremer Beitrage were subsequently collected in a Sammlung satirischer Schriften (2 vols., 1751), to which two volumes were added in 1755 . Rabener's Sdmtliche Werke appeared in 6 vols. in 1777; the edition by E . Ortlepp (1839) also contains his See also:correspondence, first published by C . F . See also:Weisse in 1772 . See P . See also:Richter, Rabener and Liscow (1884), and D . Jacoby in Allg . Deutsche Biographie (1888) .

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