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GRIMMELSHAUSEN, HANS See also:JAKOB CHRISTOFFEL VON (c.625—1676) , See also:German author, was See also:born atGelnhausen in or about 1625. At the See also:age of ten he was kidnapped by See also:Hessian soldiery, and in their midst tasted the adventures of military See also:life in the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War. At its See also:close, Grimmelshaiisen entered the service of See also:Franz Egon von Fiirstenberg, See also:bishop of See also:Strassburg and in 1665 was made Schultheiss (See also:magistrate) at Renchen in See also:Baden. On obtaining this See also:appointment, he devoted himself to See also:literary pursuits, and in '669 published Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, Teutsch, d:h. See also:die Beschreibung See also:des Lebens eines seltsamen Vaganten,' genanntMelchior Sternfels von Fuchsheim, the greatest German novel of the 17th See also:century. For this See also:work he took as his See also:model the See also:picaresque romances of See also:Spain, already to some extent known in See also:Germany: Simplicissiy nuts is in See also:great measure its author's autobiography; he begins with the childhood of his See also:hero, and describes the latter's adventures amid the stirring scenes of the Thirty Years' War. The realistic detail with which these pictures are presented makes the See also:book one of the most valuable documents of its See also:time. In the later parts Grimmelshausen, however, over-indulges in See also:allegory, and finally loses himself in' a See also:Robinson Crusoe See also:story. Among his other See also:works the most important are the so-called Simplicianisch'e Schriften: Die Erzbetriigerin and Landstortzerin Courasche (c. 1669); Der seltsame Springinsfeld (167o) and Das wunderbarlithe Vogelnest (1672). His satires, such as Der teutsche See also:Michel (1670), and " gallant" novels, like Dietwald and Amelinde (167o) are of inferior See also:interest. He died at Renchen on the 17th of See also:August 1676, where a See also:monument was erected to him in 1879. See also:Editions of Simplicissimus and the Sim licianische Schriften have been published by A. von See also:Keller (1854), H.

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Kurz (1863-*1864), J. Tittmann (1877) and F. Bobertag (1882). A reprint of the first edition of the novel was edited by R. Kogel for the See also:series of Weudrucke des z6. and 17. Jahrhunderis (188o). See the introductions to these editions; also F. See also:Antoine, Etude sur le Simplicissimus de Grimmels- hausen(1882) and E. See also:Schmidt in his Charakteristiken, vol. i. (1886).

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