MUSÆUS, JOHN AUGUST

MUSÆUS, JOHN AUGUST
   German author, born at Jena, famous as the author of German Volksmärchen, three of which, "Dumb Love," "Libussa," and "Melechsala," were translated in the volumes of "German Romance" by Thomas Carlyle; he parodied Richardson's "Sir Charles Grandison" and satirised Lavater's "Physiognomical Travels" (1735-1787).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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