Leonhard Wächter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German writer (1762-1837)
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Place of Birth: Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Leonhard Wächter
- Leonhard Wächter (25 November 1762 — 11 February 1837) was German writer and historian who often published under the pseudonym Veit Weber.
- 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.
- According to the Germanist James Taft Hatfield, it also had an influence on Goethe's Poem "Im Ernsten Beinhaus".
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