biography
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Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von
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pronunciation:
[grimels-howzen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1622–76)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Gelnhausen, WC Germany. He served on the imperial side in the Thirty Years' War, led a wandering life, then settled in Renchen, near Kehl. In later life he wrote a series of novels, the best of them on the model of the Spanish picaresque romances, such as the Simplicissimus series (1669–72). |
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