Johann Gottfried Schnabel [SEP] occupation
Johann Gottfried Schnabel
Johann Gottfried Schnabel (November 7, 1692 – c. 1751–1758) was a German writer best known for his novel "Insel Felsenburg". He published his works under the pen name Gisander.
Schnabel was born in Sandersdorf near Bitterfeld, Germany. Orphaned in 1694, he was raised by relatives. After an apprenticeship to a barber from 1706 to 1709, Schnabel worked as a "Feldsher," a military barber-surgeon, in the regiments of Wolfenbüttel and Saxony until 1717. In this capacity he
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Examples.
Examples Literature.
Ordered by date of publication
- "The Isle of Pines" (Henry Neville, 1668)
- "Die Insel Felsenburg" (Johann Gottfried Schnabel, 1731)
- "The Female American" (anon., 1767)
- "Iphigenia in Tauris" (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1787) (based on "Iphigeneia in Tauris" by Euripides)
- "The Swiss Family Robinson" (Johann David Wyss,