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RABENER (1714–1771)  , German satirist, was born on the 17th of September 1714 at Wachau near Leipzig, and died at Dresden on the 22nd of March 1771 . In 1741 he made his debut as satirist in Schwabe's Belustigungen des Verstandes and Witzes, and was subsequently a contributor to the Bremer Beitrage . Rabener's satires are in prose and mainly levelled at the follies of the 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 correspondence, first published by C . F . Weisse in 1772 . See P . Richter, Rabener and Liscow (1884), and D . Jacoby in Allg . Deutsche Biographie (1888) .