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Wolfgang Menzel (1798–1873)
Menzel, Wolfgang. A German critic and miscellaneous writer; born at Waldenburg, Silesia, June 21, 1798; died at Stuttgart, April 23, 1873. His best-known writings were: ‘German Literature’ (1828; English translation in Ripley’s ‘Specimens of Foreign Literature,’ Boston, 1840); a collection of critiques, ‘History of the Germans’ (6th ed. 1872); ‘History of German Poetry’ (2d ed. 1875); ‘Rübezahl’ (1829); ‘Narcissus’ (1830), two tales; ‘Furore’ (1851), a romance; etc.