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Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Died
1616 08 16761676
Grimmelshausen was born at Gelnhausen. At the age of ten he was kidnapped by Hessian soldiery, and in their midst tasted the adventures of military life in the Thirty Years' War. At its close, Grimmelshausen entered the service of Franz Egon von Fürstenberg, bishop in Straßburg and in 1665 was made Schultheiss at Renchen in Baden.

On obtaining this appointment, he devoted himself to literary pursuits, and in 1668 published Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch, d.h. die Beschreibung des Lebens eines seltsamen Vaganten, genannt Melchior Sternfels von Fuchsheim, the greatest German novel of the 17th century. For this work he took as his model the picaresque romances of Spain, already to some extent known in Germany. Simplicissimus is in great measure its author's autobiography; he begins with the childhood of his hero, and describes the latter's adventures amid the stirring scenes of the Thirty Years' War. The rustic detail with which these pictures are presented makes the book one of the most valuable documents of its time. In the later parts Grimmelshausen, however, over-indulges in allegory, and finally loses himself in a Robinson Crusoe story.

The historian Robert Ergang, however, draws upon Gustav Könnecke's Quellen und Forschungen zur Lebensgeschichte Grimmelshausens to convey the assertion that "the events related in the novel Simplicissimus could hardly have been autobiographical since [Grimmelshausen] lived a peaceful existence in quiet towns and villages on the fringe of the Black Forest and that the material he incorporated in his work was not taken from actual experience, but was either borrowed from the past, collected from hearsay, or created by a vivid imagination."

Among his other works, the most important are the so-called Simplicianische Schriften:

* Die Ertzbetrügerin and Landstörtzerin Courasche
* Der seltsame Springinsfeld
* Das wunderbarliche Vogelnest

His satires, such as Der teutsche Michel , and gallant novels, like Dietwald und Amelinde are of inferior interest. He died at Renchen on August 17, 1676, where a monument was erected to him in 1779.

Grimmelshausen's Landstörtzerin Courasche became an important inspiration for Bertolt Brecht´s play Mutter Courage.

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Died
1616 08 16761676
Grimmelshausen was born at Gelnhausen. At the age of ten he was kidnapped by Hessian soldiery, and in their midst tasted the adventures of military life in the Thirty Years' War. At its close, Grimmelshausen entered the service of Franz Egon von Fürstenberg, bishop in Straßburg and in 1665 was made Schultheiss at Renchen in Baden.

On obtaining this appointment, he devoted himself to literary pursuits, and in 1668 published Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch, d.h. die Beschreibung des Lebens eines seltsamen Vaganten, genannt Melchior Sternfels von Fuchsheim, the greatest German novel of the 17th century. For this work he took as his model the picaresque romances of Spain, already to some extent known in Germany. Simplicissimus is in great measure its author's autobiography; he begins with the childhood of his hero, and describes the latter's adventures amid the stirring scenes of the Thirty Years' War. The rustic detail with which these pictures are presented makes the book one of the most valuable documents of its time. In the later parts Grimmelshausen, however, over-indulges in allegory, and finally loses himself in a Robinson Crusoe story.

The historian Robert Ergang, however, draws upon Gustav Könnecke's Quellen und Forschungen zur Lebensgeschichte Grimmelshausens to convey the assertion that "the events related in the novel Simplicissimus could hardly have been autobiographical since [Grimmelshausen] lived a peaceful existence in quiet towns and villages on the fringe of the Black Forest and that the material he incorporated in his work was not taken from actual experience, but was either borrowed from the past, collected from hearsay, or created by a vivid imagination."

Among his other works, the most important are the so-called Simplicianische Schriften:

* Die Ertzbetrügerin and Landstörtzerin Courasche
* Der seltsame Springinsfeld
* Das wunderbarliche Vogelnest

His satires, such as Der teutsche Michel , and gallant novels, like Dietwald und Amelinde are of inferior interest. He died at Renchen on August 17, 1676, where a monument was erected to him in 1779.

Grimmelshausen's Landstörtzerin Courasche became an important inspiration for Bertolt Brecht´s play Mutter Courage.

Books from Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Simplicissimus

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Life of Courage

3.6/5 ( ratings)

La Pícara Coraje & Encuentro en Telgte

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Tearaway (Dedalus European Classics)

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Courasche / Springinsfeld / Wunderbarliches Vogelnest I und II / Rathstübel Plutonis

4/5 ( ratings)

Grimmelshausens Werke: In vier Bänden

4/5 ( ratings)

The Continuation of Simplicissimus

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Keuscher Joseph (Kometen der Anderen Bibliothek, Band 8)

3/5 ( ratings)

Das wunderbarliche Vogelnest: Erster und zweiter Teil Abenteuer zweier Unsichtbarer Aus dem Deutschen des 17. Jahrhunderts und mit einem Nachwort von Reinhard Kaiser

5/5 ( ratings)

Courage, the Adventuress and the False Messiah

5/5 ( ratings)

Симплициссимус / Литературные памятники

5/5 ( ratings)

Meisterwerke deutscher Literatur: 100 Klassiker: Der Prozess, Der Sandmann, Professor Unrat, Also sprach Zarathustra, Faust, Jeder stirbt für sich allein (German Edition)

5/5 ( ratings)

Trutz Simplex : Oder Ausführliche und wunderseltsame Lebensbeschreibung, Der Erzbetrügerin und Landstörzerin Courasche

5/5 ( ratings)

L'avventuroso Simplicissimus

5/5 ( ratings)

Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus: kommentiert (Kultverlag Klassik)

5/5 ( ratings)

Galgen-Männlin (German Edition)

5/5 ( ratings)

LES AVENTURES DE SIMPLICIUS SIMPLICISSIMUS

5/5 ( ratings)

Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Von Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (German Edition)

5/5 ( ratings)

Melchiorre Il Superbo (Firiwizzo Meista)

5/5 ( ratings)

Coffee Break Collection 010 - War and Conflict

5/5 ( ratings)
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