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See also:MOSCHEROSCH, JOHANN See also:MICHAEL (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," 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).
End of Article: MOSCHEROSCH, JOHANN MICHAEL (1601–1669)
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