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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Johann Lauremberg (1590–1658)

Lauremberg, Johann Wilhelm (lou’rem-berG). A Low-German satirist; born at Rostock, Feb. 26, 1590; died at Lorö, Feb. 28, 1658. In ‘Four Famous Old Comic Poems’ (1652), written in the Low-German dialect, he ridicules the fashion of the time in costume, manners, speech, etc. He wrote also some Latin poems; and a few dramatic pieces of little value in High-German, with interludes in Low-German.