Author:Johann Karl August Musäus

Johann Karl August Musäus
(1735–1787)

Johann Karl August Musäus

Works

• Grandison der Zweite ('Grandison the Second'), 1760–1762
• Physiognomische Reisen ('Physiognomic Travels'), 1778–1779
  • Physiognomical Travels translated by Anne Plumptre (1800) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• Der deutsche Grandison ('The German Grandison'), 1781–1782, rewritten version of Grandison der Zweite
• Volksmährchen der Deutschen ('Folktales of the Germans'), 1782–1787
  • "Die Bücher der Chronika der drey Schwestern" ('The Books of the Chronicles of the Three Sisters')
  • "Richilde" ('Richilda')
  • "Rolands Knappen" ('Roland's Squires')
  • "Legenden von Rübezahl" ('Legends of Rübezahl')
  • "Die Nymphe des Brunnens" ('The Nymph of the Spring')
  • "Libussa" ('Libussa')
  • "Der geraubte Schleier" ('The Stolen Veil')
  • "Liebestreue" ('Love-Loyalty')
  • "Stumme Liebe" ('Mute Love')
  • "Ulrich mit dem Bühel" ('Ulrich with the Hump')
  • "Dämon Amor" ('Demon Cupid')
  • "Melechsala" ('Melechsala')
  • "Der Schazgräber" ('The Treasure Seeker')
  • "Die Entführung" ('The Elopement')
• Nachgelassene Schriften ('Posthumous Writings'), 1791, posthumous, edited by August von Kotzebue

Edited

• Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier ('Friend Hein's Apparitions in Holbein's Manner'), 1785, by Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, with additional explanations in prose and verse by Musäus
  • "The Lodge of Silence", extract translated by E. J. Barron and G. W. Speth (1895) (external scan)
• Straussfedern ('Ostrich Feathers'), 1787, unfinished on his death

Works about Musäus

• "Musæus, John August," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Musäus, Johann Karl August," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)