Leonhard Wächter

Portrait of Wächter published in 1838

Leonhard Wächter (25 November 1762 — 11 February 1837) was a German writer and historian who often published under the pseudonym Veit Weber.[1] His most well-known work of fiction was Sagen der Vorzeit ('Legends of the Past'), a seven volume idealized account of Germany in the middle ages. The work influenced several 18th- and early 19th-century Gothic novelists in both Britain and France.[2][3][4] According to the Germanist James Taft Hatfield, it also had an influence on Goethe's poem "Im ernsten Beinhaus".[5]

References

  1. ^ Mendheim, Max (1896). "Wächter, Leonhard". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 40, pp. 428–431. Duncker & Humblot (in German)
  2. ^ Hall, Daniel (2005). French and German Gothic Fiction in the Late Eighteenth Century. pp. 22; 120121; 176; 201. Peter Lang. ISBN 3039100777
  3. ^ Bridgwater, Patrick (2013). The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective, pp. 83–114. Rodopi. ISBN 9401209928
  4. ^ Price, Lawrence M. (Summer, 1959). "Review: Englische Vorromantik und Deutscher Sturm und Drang. M. G. Lewis' Stellung in der Geschichte der Deutsch-Englischen Literaturbezie-Hungen by Karl S. Guthke". Comparative Literature, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 281-285
  5. ^ Hatfield, James Taft (September 1921). "Goethe's Poem "Im Ernsten Beinhaus"". PMLA, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 429-435